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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The people, on their holidays,
              Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable.    --Milton.
  
     Syn: Forcible; rapid; hasty; precipitate; furious;
          boisterous; violent; raging; fierce; passionate. --
          Im*pet"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pet"u*ous*ness, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.
  
              Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. --Byron.
  
     2. Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man
        of impetuous temper.
  
              The people, on their holidays, Impetuous, insolent,
              unquenchable.                         --Milton.
  
     Syn: Forcible; rapid; hasty; precipitate; furious;
          boisterous; violent; raging; fierce; passionate. --
          Im*pet"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pet"u*ous*ness, n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  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"

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  impetuous
     a.
     Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful
  manner.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  impetuous
     a.
     Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful
  manner.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  impetuous
     a.
     Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful
  manner.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  impetuous
     a.
     Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful
  manner.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  impetuous
     Englanti a.
     harkitsematon, hätäinen, malttamaton, äkkinäinen, kiihkeä

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  impetuous
     Engelska a.
     impulsiv

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  متهور

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  impetuous //imˈpɛt͡ʃuəs// 
  1. буен, необуздан
  characterized by sudden and violent force
  2. импулсивен, прибързан
  describing one who makes arbitrary decisions

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/ 
  impulzivní

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/ 
  neuvážený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/ 
  prudký

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  stürmisch, hitzig, polternd, ungestüm  [geh.]
           Note: Person
     Synonym: harum-scarum
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  wild, ungezügelt, heftig 
           Note: Sache
           Note: of a thing

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/ 
  impulsiv 

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  
  απερίσκεπτος, ακάθεκτος, ορμητικός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  impetuous //imˈpɛt͡ʃuəs// 
  1. kiihkeä, raju
  characterized by sudden and violent force
  2. kiihkeä, kiivas, raju, äkkipikainen
  describing one who makes arbitrary decisions

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/ 
  1. जल्दबाज़
        "Don't be so Impetuous."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  nagao, nepromišljen, plah, žestok

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  1. dühöngô
  2. indulatos
  3. hirtelenkedô
  4. heves
  5. szenvedélyes
  6. rámenôs
  7. féktelen
  8. elhamarkodott
  9. meggondolatlan
  10. zabolátlan
  11. tüzes
  12. lobbanékony

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  impetuous //imˈpɛt͡ʃuəs// 
  sembrono, tanpa pikir panjang

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  impetuous //imˈpɛt͡ʃuəs// 
  impulsstyrt
  describing one who makes arbitrary decisions

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  impetuous /ɪmˈpetjʊəs/ 
    porywczy

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/ 
  impetuoso

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  impetuous /ɪmpˈɛtʃuːəs/
  1. aceleci, düşünmeden hareket eden
  2. düşünmeden yapllan
  3. zorlu, sert, şiddetli
  4. çabuk, hızlı. impetuously  düşünmeden, acele ve şiddetle.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˌɪmˈpɛtʃwəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 冲动的,猛烈的,轻率的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 冲动的,猛烈的,轻率的,急躁的

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