Meaning of IMPUDENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'impyudunt
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- [adj] improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"
- [adj] marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
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IMPUDENT is a 8 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | disrespectful, flip, forward, fresh, impertinent, insolent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, snotty-nosed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im"pu*dent\, a. [L. impudens, -entis; pref. im- not +
pudens ashamed, modest, p. pr. of pudere to feel shame: cf.
F. impudent.]
Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward;
impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy.
More than impudent sauciness. --Shak.
When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent.
--Dryden.
Syn: Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert;
immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent.
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| | Related Terms: | | arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, biggety, blatant, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, hubristic, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, improvident, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, irreverent, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, presumptuous, procacious, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, shameless, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, temerarious, unabashed, unblushing, uncalled-for, unchary, uncivil, unwary, wise-ass |
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