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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

... allows to rust, those weapons that save parents and guardians so much personal exertion if only they will let things take their course, those sharp, swift consequences that attend the actions of the impetuous. I might, indeed, if this were a sermon and there were a congregation unable to get away, expatiate on the habit these weapons have of smiting with equal fury the just and the unjust; how you only need to be a little foolish, quite a little foolish, under ...

— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim

... The position commanded an extensive view, and the aspect of the river was sufficiently alarming. The ice, which by that time had broken up, was rolling and crashing along with inconceivable force before the impetuous torrent. The water had risen to such a height that the lower lands were completely inundated. That it was still rising was made obvious by the fact that the rolling masses at the river-sides were being thrust higher and higher on obstructing points, carrying bushes and trees ...

— The Red Man's Revenge - A Tale of The Red River Flood • R.M. Ballantyne

... His wiliness (said these) would be most readily detected, if a fair woman were put in his way in some secluded place, who should provoke his mind to the temptations of love; all men's natural temper being too blindly amorous to be artfully dissembled, and this passion being also too impetuous to be checked by cunning. Therefore, if his lethargy were feigned, he would seize the opportunity, and yield straightway to violent delights. So men were commissioned to draw the young man in his rides into a remote part of ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... on earth, that's what he is! Impetuous, perhaps, but so sweet and generous and forgiving. Makes you shake in your shoes if you've done anything amiss, but when all is over and he puts his arm on your shoulder and tells you to think no more about it, you're ready to die for him even at ...

— The Eternal City • Hall Caine

... an impetuous man, and so full of his own mission, that he did not wait for me to ...

— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

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