Synonyms for Imprudent

Synonyms for "imprudent" (133 found)

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Closest matches (27)

adventurous blanket brash brassy brazen brazenfaced careless casual crazy daredevil foolhardy foolish general hasty heedless hubristic ill-advised ill-considered ill-contrived

Adjective(6 words)

carelesscareless behaviorfoolhardier foolhardy harebrained hastier

Noun(2 words)

daringill advised action

Strong matches (40)

ill-devised ill-gauged ill-judged impetuous impolitic improvident impudent impulsive inadvisable inane incautious inconsiderate indiscreet indiscriminate indiscriminative inept inexpedient injudicious insane insensate

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insensitive insolent irrational irresponsible mad mindless misadvised misguided myopic nonjudgmental overbold overcareless overconfident oversure

Adjective(4 words)

incautious injudicious nonconservative overambitious

Noun(1 words)

mismanaging

Verb(1 words)

overreached

Related words (66)

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Adjective(1 words)

prodigal

Adjective(14 words)

rashrash debaterrash shoverashest reckless softheaded stupidest unrestrained unwarier unwariest unwise unwisest wastefulwasteful irrigation

Noun(3 words)

rash presentationspendthriftwasteful neglect

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

4 entries

behavioral traitmoral judgmentmoral qualityrisk management quality

More specific

9 entries

careless omissionhasty actionill considered planill considered policyinadequate due diligenceinjudicious actpoor risk assessmentrash decisionreckless act

Collocations

5 entries

imprudent behaviorimprudent choiceimprudent decisionimprudent investorimprudent policy

Inflections

2 entries

more imprudentmost imprudent

Derivations

2 entries

imprudence imprudently

Antonyms

1 entries

prudent

similar

13 entries

careless foolish ill-advised ill-considered ill-judged improvident inadvisable indiscreet injudicious rash shortsighted unadvisable unadvised

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It is very imprudent to swim in the rapids.

Source: tatoeba (59708)

I was assailed by the stupid, but unshakeable, idea that if I was imprudent enough to move my hand I'd be noticed.

Source: tatoeba (327409)

It was very imprudent, very rash of you to speak about her the way you did last night.

Source: tatoeba (722579)

Deluded by the imprudent language of my looks, she surrendered to the sweet belief that she was the idol of these looks.

Source: tatoeba (1775795)

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