Impetuous \Im*pet"u*ous\, a. [F. impetueux, L. impetuosus. See
Impetus.]
1. Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus;
furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an
impetuous torrent.
[1913 Webster]
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]
2. Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man
of impetuous temper.
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The people, on their holidays,
Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable. --Milton.
Syn: Forcible; rapid; hasty; precipitate; furious;
boisterous; violent; raging; fierce; passionate. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impetuous
adj 1: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or
deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such
impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous
display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades";
(`brainish' is archaic) [syn: hotheaded, impulsive,
madcap, tearaway(a), brainish]
2: marked by violent force; "impetuous heaving waves"
WordNet (r) 2.0
225 Moby Thesaurus words for "impetuous":
abrupt, accident-prone, active, acute, adrift, afloat, aggressive,
alternating, amorphous, animated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious,
ardent, breakneck, breathless, brisk, brittle, capricious,
careless, chafing, changeable, changeful, corruptible, deciduous,
desperate, desultory, deviable, devil-may-care, dizzy, dying,
dynamic, eager, eccentric, edgy, electrifying, energetic,
enterprising, enthusiastic, ephemeral, erratic, evanescent,
excited, fading, fast and loose, fervid, fickle, fierce, fiery,
fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating,
fly-by-night, flying, forceful, forcible, fragile, frail, freakish,
fretful, fretting, fugacious, fugitive, full of pep, furious,
giddy, go-go, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hearty, hopped-up,
hotheaded, hurried, impassioned, impatient, impermanent, impulsive,
in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, incisive, inconsistent,
inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, intense, irregular,
irresolute, irresponsible, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty,
mad, mazy, mercurial, mettlesome, momentary, moody, mortal,
mutable, nerve-shattering, nondurable, nonpermanent, offhand,
on edge, overeager, overenthusiastic, overhasty, overzealous,
panting, passing, passionate, peppy, perishable, precipitant,
precipitate, precipitous, quick, rambling, rash, reckless, restive,
restless, robust, roving, rushing, scatterbrained, shapeless,
shifting, shifty, shocking, short-lived, shuffling, simmering,
slap-bang, slapdash, smacking, snappy, spanking, spasmodic, speedy,
spineless, spirited, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, squirming,
squirmy, startling, stormy, strenuous, strong, sudden, surprising,
swift, take-charge, take-over, tempestuous, temporal, temporary,
tornadic, transient, transitive, transitory, trenchant,
unaccountable, unanticipated, uncertain, uncontrolled,
undependable, undisciplined, undurable, uneasy, unenduring,
unexpected, unfixed, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpatient,
unplanned, unpredictable, unpredicted, unpremeditated, unquiet,
unreflective, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable,
unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unthinking,
vacillating, vagrant, variable, vehement, vibrant, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous, vigorous, violent, vivacious, vivid, volatile,
volcanic, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward,
whimsical, wild, wishy-washy, zestful, zesty, zippy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway(a)
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