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Impulsive   /ɪmpˈəlsɪv/   Listen
adjective
Impulsive  adj.  
1.
Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent. "Poor men! poor papers! We and they Do some impulsive force obey."
2.
Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings. "My heart, impulsive and wayward."
3.
(Mech.) Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; said of forces.


noun
Impulsive  n.  That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.





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"Impulsive" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth. The silly words struck on his brain. The book seemed hollow; sounded hollow as he shut it. This woman breathed of active striving life. She was a spur to black energies; a plumed glory; impulsive to chivalry. Everything she said and did held men in scales, and approved ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... have as much liberty in making love as men, and there is no law or custom about it. If a woman chooses she can pay the most desperate attentions, and play the part of a distracted lover to her heart's content. In most cases the women actually take the initiative, as they are more impressible and impulsive than men; and so it was that Layelah made me the object of her persistent assault—acting all the time, too, in accordance with the custom of the country, and thus having no thought whatever of indelicacy, since, according to the Kosekin, she was acting ...
— A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder • James De Mille
... cowardice had sapped incessantly at his heart. He had walked about with it; he had taken it with him to his bed. It had haunted his dreams. It had been his perpetual menacing companion. It had kept him from intimacy with his friends lest an impulsive word should betray him. Lieutenant Sutch did not wonder that in the end it had brought about this irretrievable mistake; ...
— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason
... Talent may make friends for itself, but only genius can give to its creations the divine power of winning love and veneration. Enthusiasm cannot cling to what itself is unenthusiastic, nor will he ever have disciples who has not himself impulsive zeal enough to be a disciple. Great wits are allied to madness only inasmuch as they are possessed and carried away by their demon, while talent keeps him, as Paracelsus did, securely prisoned in the ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell
... a glimpse of the stirring events taking place at that period; and both boys and girls will delight to read of the home life of Hilda and Gytha, and of the brave deeds of the impulsive Gurth and the ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty


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