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adjective

Impetuous adj.

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. "Went pouring forward with impetuous speed."

Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper. "The people, on their holidays, Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable."

Synonyms: Forcible; rapid; hasty; precipitate; furious; boisterous; violent; raging; fierce; passionate.

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Etymology of 'Impetuous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impetuous" Quotes from Famous Books

... attack on the meetings of the triumphant Christians, or to travel to the imperial abode and exhort Jovian to withdraw his act of perilous leniency ere it was too late. With difficulty did his more cautious confederates restrain him from the execution of his impetuous designs. For two days he withdrew himself from his companions, and brooded in solitude over the injury offered to his beloved superstition, and the prospective augmentation of the ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... of this vivid, high-spirited girl seemed to be an echo of her impetuous, wayward temper. Even a concern as natural as that excited by her cousin's present plight, was charged with an intensity which made me wonder what the effect might be if her feelings were ever deeply or ...

— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk

... a dash for his hat, and the next moment she heard, with unpleasant distinctness, his impetuous hand slam the shop door and ...

— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

... lying is nearly universal when certain external circumstances exist universally, especially circumstances productive of habitual distrust and fear. When the character of the old is asserted to be cautious, and of the young impetuous, this, again, is but an empirical law; for it is not because of their youth that the young are impetuous, nor because of their age that the old are cautious. It is chiefly, if not wholly, because the old, during their many years of life, have generally ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... ex eo loco praecipitum dedit." Of Arnold's followers the most notable were Morgan's brave riflemen, and the whole column consisted of five hundred men. He marched in advance of them, animating their courage by word and example. His impetuous bravery led him to needless exposure in the attack on the first barrier, in front of which he was at once struck down by a musket-wound in the knee, and carried off the field back to the General Hospital, where, to his intense chagrin, he soon learned the defeat and death of Montgomery. ...

— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance

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