impetuous

The word “impetuous” has 4 syllables: im-pet-u-ous

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈpɛtʃuəs/


What is synonym and antonym for impetuous?

In the thesaurus, “impetuous” has 92 synonyms and 63 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for impetuous along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for impetuous

  • abrupt
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • ardent
  • audacious
  • bold
  • brash
  • brave
  • brazen
  • comforted
  • courageous
  • crazy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • doughty
  • eager
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • fearless
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • furious
  • gallant
  • going off deep end
  • greathearted
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heartened
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hotheaded
  • hurried
  • impassioned
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intrepid
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • mettlesome
  • nutty
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • passionate
  • precipitant
  • precipitate
  • precipitous
  • rash
  • reassured
  • reckless
  • restive
  • rushing
  • spirited
  • spontaneous
  • spunky
  • spur-of-the-moment
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • subitaneous
  • sudden
  • swift
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • unbridled
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • unexpected
  • unplanned
  • unpremeditated
  • unreflecting
  • unrestrained
  • unthinking
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • vehement
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • violent
  • wild

Antonyms for impetuous

  • afraid
  • agitated
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • calm
  • careful
  • cautious
  • chicken
  • chicken-livered
  • chickenhearted
  • circumspect
  • considerate
  • coward
  • cowardly
  • craven
  • dastardly
  • diffident
  • disconcerted
  • disquieted
  • disturbed
  • fainthearted
  • fearful
  • frightened
  • gutless
  • heedful
  • horrified
  • lily-livered
  • milk-livered
  • mousey
  • mousy
  • nerveless
  • nervous
  • panic-stricken
  • panicked
  • perturbed
  • poltroon
  • poor-spirited
  • prudent
  • pusillanimous
  • reflective
  • scared
  • scary
  • sensible
  • shocked
  • shy
  • skittish
  • spineless
  • spiritless
  • spooked
  • startled
  • terrified
  • terrorized
  • thoughtful
  • timid
  • timorous
  • unadventurous
  • uncourageous
  • ungallant
  • unheroic
  • unnerved
  • weakhearted
  • wise
  • yellow

Meanings of impetuous

  • adjective
    1. Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.
    2. Characterized by sudden violence or vehemence.

Example Sentences

  • His impetuous decision to quit his job surprised everyone.
  • She made an impetuous move that changed the course of the game.
  • The horse made an impetuous leap over the fence.
  • Their impetuous romance ended almost as quickly as it began.
  • Acting in an impetuous manner often leads to unintended consequences.

On this page you'll find 155 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to impetuous, such as: abrupt, adventuresome, adventurous, afraid, agitated, anxious, apprehensive.

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  • sweetheart
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  • sweetie pie
  • swell
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  • terrific
  • thoughtful
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  • tremendous
  • unafraid
  • undauntable
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  • uplifting
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  • valentine
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venerable
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • woo
  • wooer
  • worthy

kamikaze

  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • blithe
  • bold
  • carefree
  • careless
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • devil-may-care
  • feckless
  • foolhardy
  • freewheeling
  • happy-go-lucky
  • harum-scarum
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • hell-for-leather
  • hotheaded
  • impetuous
  • inattentive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • irresponsible
  • madcap
  • mindless
  • nonchalant
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reckless
  • regardless
  • slaphappy
  • thoughtless
  • unconcerned
  • unheeding
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  • unworried
  • venturesome
  • wild

madcap

  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • berserk
  • berserker
  • bold
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • careless
  • courageous
  • cowboy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dauntless
  • devil
  • doughty
  • fearless
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frivolous
  • gallant
  • greathearted
  • gutsy
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hotdog
  • hotheaded
  • ill-advised
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • intrepid
  • lionhearted
  • lively
  • madman
  • manful
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reckless
  • scatterbrained
  • showboat
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stupid
  • temerarious
  • thoughtless
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

maddened

  • affronted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • angered
  • annoyed
  • antagonized
  • ape
  • aroused
  • baked
  • bananas
  • bent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • beside oneself
  • bitter
  • blazing
  • bloodthirsty
  • boiling
  • bothered
  • browned off
  • brutal
  • buffaloed
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • burned up
  • carried away
  • chafed
  • choleric
  • coercive
  • confused
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  • convulsive
  • corybantic
  • cracked
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
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  • cruel
  • delirious
  • demented
  • demoniac
  • deranged
  • desperate
  • disarranged
  • discomposed
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  • dogged
  • dotty
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  • ferocious
  • fierce
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  • fighting mad
  • fit to be tied
  • flipped
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  • foaming at the mouth
  • forceful
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  • frantic
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  • got
  • great
  • hacked
  • hateful
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  • heated
  • homicidal
  • hopping mad
  • hot
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  • huffed
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  • impassioned
  • impetuous
  • in a fit
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  • in a towering rage
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  • infuriated
  • insane
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  • loco
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  • lunatic
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  • miffed
  • mighty
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  • overwrought
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  • peed
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  • pissed
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  • possessed
  • potent
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  • rage
  • raging
  • rampant
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  • riled
  • riotous
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  • rubbed the wrong way
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  • savage
  • seething
  • smoking
  • sore
  • spasmodic
  • splenetic
  • steamed
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  • sulky
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  • vicious
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  • whacko
  • wild
  • worked-up
  • wrathful

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