'Imprudence' definitions:
Definition of 'imprudence'
(from WordNet)
noun
A lack of caution in practical affairs [ant: prudence]
Definition of 'Imprudence'
From: GCIDE
- Imprudence \Im*pru"dence\, n. [L. imprudentia: cf. F. imprudence. Cf. Improvidence.] The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. [1913 Webster]
- His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own imprudence. --Mickle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'imprudence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- act of folly,
- blunder,
- brashness,
- brass,
- brazen boldness,
- callowness,
- casualness,
- cheek,
- childishness,
- chutzpah,
- crudity of intellect,
- dumb trick,
- folly,
- gall,
- heroics,
- hubris,
- immaturity,
- improvidence,
- impudence,
- inadvisability,
- inattention,
- inconsideration,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- indiscriminateness,
- indiscrimination,
- inexpedience,
- injudiciousness,
- insensibility,
- insensitivity,
- insolence,
- irrationality,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of refinement,
- overboldness,
- overcarelessness,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweeningness,
- pompousness,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- puerility,
- rashness,
- reasonlessness,
- recklessness,
- senselessness,
- sottise,
- stuffiness,
- stupid thing,
- stupidity,
- syncretism,
- tactlessness,
- temerariousness,
- temerity,
- thoughtlessness,
- unchariness,
- uncriticalness,
- undiscriminatingness,
- undiscriminativeness,
- unfastidiousness,
- unintelligence,
- unmeticulousness,
- unparticularness,
- unpreciseness,
- unreason,
- unreasonableness,
- unselectiveness,
- unsensibleness,
- unsoundness,
- untactfulness,
- unthoughtfulness,
- unwariness,
- unwisdom,
- unwise step,
- unwiseness,
- witlessness