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impulsive

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1. impulsive - Noun

2. impulsive - Adjective

3. impulsive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.

Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings.

Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said of forces.

That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. Horace Mann

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them. Neil Strauss

I suspect that drink has made you impulsive." "Drink makes me see funny; the gods made me impulsive. Scott Lynch

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking-by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. Roger Zelazny

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever. Elton John

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