imprudent

Speech parts

1. imprudent - Adjective

2. imprudent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

indiscreet rash careless negligent heedless unwise incautious injudicious ill-advised daredevil mad prodigal wild excessive impractical
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Antonyms

prudent Jew mystic provident prudential hep
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Related terms

imprudence

Phrases with the word

less imprudent imprudent person more imprudent imprudent driver

Examples

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. Charles Caleb Colton

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. Giacomo Casanova

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. Voltaire

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children. Steven Rattner

I believe it is imprudent to document the disaster quite so much as some of us have. By publishing his achievements you give the Devil more than his due. The question is what can be done-what can and what must be done, because there isn't any choice. (Ch. 1) John Senior

The President ... may err ... Congress may decide amiss ... But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent or bad men, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war. Alexis de Tocqueville

Close letter words and terms

IMPRS-LS imprudence imprudency imprudent driver imprudent person imprudently