Definition for Impetuous:

• im-pet'[= u]- us, adj. rushing upon with impetus or violence: vehement in feeling: passionate.-- adv. IMPET'UOUSLY.-- ns. IMPET'UOUSNESS, IMPETUOS'ITY.

Synonyms for Impetuous:

• adj.

  •acting without thinking (adjective)
  • vehement,
  • unrestrained,
  • precipitous,
  • unplanned,
  • headlong,
  • going off deep end,
  • impassioned,
  • furious,
  • unreflecting,
  • hurried,
  • rushing,
  • ardent,
  • sudden,
  • abrupt,
  • unbridled,
  • spontaneous,
  • precipitant,
  • unpremeditated,
  • fierce,
  • hasty,
  • rash,
  • unthinking,
  • unexpected,
  • precipitate,
  • violent,
  • Subitaneous,
  • fervid,
  • spur-of-the-moment,
  • restive,
  • impulsive,
  • swift,
  • passionate,
  • eager.
  •blind (adjective)
  • mindless,
  • reckless.
  •destructive (adjective)
  • violent.
  •disobedient (adjective)
  • unruly.
  •emotional (adjective)
  • hot-blooded,
  • temperamental.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • volcanic,
  • Hot-headed,
  • overzealous,
  • fidgety,
  • excitable,
  • mercurial.
  •hasty (adjective)
  • quick.
  •headlong (adjective)
  • headlong.
  •idealistic (adjective)
  • quixotic.
  •impulsive (adjective)
  • unprompted,
  • hasty,
  • changeable,
  • precipitate,
  • sudden.
  •lively (adjective)
  • jaunty.
  •rash (adjective)
  • unheedful,
  • irresponsible,
  • impulsive,
  • incautious,
  • unconsidered,
  • hotheaded,
  • imprudent,
  • precipitant,
  • hectic,
  • daring,
  • injudicious,
  • audacious,
  • rash,
  • breakneck,
  • thoughtless,
  • foolhardy,
  • desperado,
  • brazen,
  • careless,
  • brash,
  • overhasty,
  • reckless,
  • daredevil.
  •reckless (adjective)
  • headlong.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • excitable.
  •surprising (adjective)
  • unexpected.
  •uncontrolled (adjective)
  • blind.
  •unwary (adjective)
  • unadvised.
  •very fast (adjective)
  • whirlwind.

• n.

  •
  • fast.
  •
  • precipitate,
  • unthinking,
  • ill-considered,
  • temerarious,
  • mindless,
  • shallow,
  • harum-scarum,
  • improvident,
  • unconsidered,
  • slapdash,
  • foolish,
  • undiscriminating,
  • headlong,
  • precipitant,
  • hasty.
  •impetuous (noun)
  • madcap,
  • forceful,
  • incautious,
  • hotheaded,
  • brainish,
  • tearaway,
  • impulsive.

• v.

  •raging (verb)
  • rampant.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unthinking,
  • blithely,
  • precipitant,
  • impolitic,
  • short-sighted,
  • bumbling,
  • mindless,
  • merrily,
  • shallow,
  • unwary,
  • hysterical,
  • rudderless,
  • ill-considered,
  • indiscreet,
  • temerarious,
  • blithe,
  • unconsidered,
  • indiscriminate,
  • undiscriminating,
  • vacuous,
  • ill-judged,
  • myopic.
  •
  • unguarded,
  • foolish,
  • abrupt,
  • unwitting,
  • precipitate,
  • emotional,
  • blind,
  • precipitous,
  • harum-scarum.
  •
  • automatically,
  • improvident.
  •
  • lightly,
  • slapdash,
  • mad,
  • hasty.
  •debonair
  • jaunty.
  •insistent
  • urgent.
  •uncontrollable
  • unruly.
  •Other relevant words:
  • vivacious,
  • disquiet,
  • blithe,
  • edgy,
  • slap-bang,
  • fitful,
  • mettlesome,
  • harum-scarum,
  • unchecked,
  • devil-may-care,
  • startling,
  • gutsy,
  • whirlwind,
  • unpredictable,
  • extreme,
  • fearless,
  • inconsistent,
  • drastic,
  • acute,
  • choleric,
  • bumbling,
  • temerarious,
  • unwary,
  • senseless,
  • fast,
  • inadvisable,
  • testy,
  • precipitous,
  • warm,
  • cheeky,
  • erratic,
  • spontaneous,
  • overhasty,
  • contention,
  • Flitting,
  • uncertain,
  • inconstant,
  • dashing,
  • fly-by-night,
  • fading,
  • arbitrary,
  • evanescent,
  • fervent,
  • snap,
  • quixotic,
  • shifty,
  • athirst,
  • indiscreet,
  • impulsively,
  • perverse,
  • peppy,
  • unpremeditated,
  • zesty,
  • roving,
  • uncontrollable,
  • fugitive,
  • hearty,
  • afloat,
  • hurricane,
  • mechanical,
  • wanton,
  • expeditious,
  • rushed,
  • speedy,
  • prompt,
  • shifting,
  • changeful,
  • ungentle,
  • shocking,
  • impassioned,
  • ill-judged,
  • go-go,
  • unsettled,
  • fury,
  • snappy,
  • transitory,
  • Stanchless,
  • frenzied,
  • pell-mell,
  • twister,
  • blithely,
  • rough,
  • rabid,
  • volatile,
  • eager,
  • dying for,
  • haste,
  • unconventional,
  • set upon,
  • giddy,
  • mercurial,
  • unlooked-for,
  • nervy,
  • free,
  • unforced,
  • instinctual,
  • emotional,
  • unwonted,
  • impetuosity,
  • fragile,
  • temerity,
  • unshackled,
  • express,
  • forcible,
  • importunate,
  • agog,
  • nervous,
  • vehemently,
  • severe,
  • adrift,
  • precipitately,
  • infirm,
  • untrammelled,
  • fiery,
  • involuntary,
  • fussy,
  • high-speed,
  • alacritous,
  • eagerness,
  • quick,
  • going off deep end,
  • on edge,
  • abrupt,
  • transitive,
  • undiplomatic,
  • boisterous,
  • lusty,
  • ardent,
  • indiscriminate,
  • ill-advised,
  • panting,
  • explosive,
  • spur-of-the-moment,
  • scatterbrained,
  • capricious,
  • pervading,
  • tempestuous,
  • urgent,
  • enterprising,
  • momentary,
  • spineless,
  • mutable,
  • forceful,
  • trenchant,
  • unsteady,
  • intractable,
  • delusional,
  • madcap,
  • intent upon,
  • frantic,
  • impermanent,
  • extemporaneous,
  • brainish,
  • indecisive,
  • whimsical,
  • brief,
  • swift,
  • eccentric,
  • spirited,
  • unforbearing,
  • inflamed,
  • Subitaneous,
  • electrifying,
  • myopic,
  • unannounced,
  • wrong,
  • undependable,
  • keen,
  • agitated,
  • waspish,
  • Unreasoned,
  • confused,
  • driving,
  • insubstantial,
  • uproarious,
  • overenthusiastic,
  • immediate,
  • deciduous,
  • take over,
  • raving,
  • hot-blooded,
  • pushing,
  • improvident,
  • Fretting,
  • hastily,
  • merrily,
  • vehement,
  • tornado,
  • panic-stricken,
  • edginess,
  • Short-spoken,
  • energetic,
  • simmering,
  • furious,
  • spasmodic,
  • lightly,
  • Vicissitudinary,
  • uneasy,
  • inane,
  • uncultivated,
  • jaunty,
  • rushing,
  • undiscerning,
  • without forethought,
  • offhand,
  • feverish,
  • insubordinate,
  • unfettered,
  • disobedient,
  • enrage,
  • brave,
  • raging,
  • Unsteadfast,
  • automatically,
  • vagrant,
  • gallant,
  • wayward,
  • inexpedient,
  • stormy,
  • surprising,
  • Unenduring,
  • lively,
  • slapdash,
  • strong,
  • spanking,
  • unreflecting,
  • irrepressible,
  • irresolute,
  • unquiet,
  • strenuous,
  • Unpatient,
  • unreflective,
  • virulent,
  • unfixed,
  • zestful,
  • unwitting,
  • disorderly,
  • indocile,
  • fugacious,
  • violence,
  • quick-tempered,
  • death-defying,
  • automatic,
  • rudderless,
  • corruptible,
  • fierce,
  • mortal,
  • flighty,
  • unplanned,
  • precipitation,
  • uncontrolled,
  • hopped-up,
  • avid,
  • hurried,
  • tense,
  • venturesome,
  • undiscriminating,
  • restless,
  • instinctive,
  • zippy,
  • fervid,
  • robust,
  • fanatical,
  • precipitate,
  • instantaneous,
  • vivid,
  • kinetic,
  • heady,
  • ferocious,
  • temporal,
  • wavy,
  • nonpermanent,
  • curtness,
  • bluff,
  • unthinking,
  • Unrestrainable,
  • unmanageable,
  • hot-tempered,
  • serious,
  • living,
  • changeable,
  • rowdy,
  • rude,
  • inextinguishable,
  • temperamental,
  • impetuousness,
  • disorganized,
  • yearning,
  • hastiness,
  • foolish,
  • alternating,
  • unconsidered,
  • fleet,
  • flickering,
  • unexpected,
  • impetuously,
  • overeager,
  • unrestricted,
  • impolitic,
  • tearaway,
  • instant,
  • unadvised,
  • dying,
  • unpredicted,
  • volcanic,
  • fretful,
  • shallow,
  • unconscious,
  • bold,
  • ill-considered,
  • undisciplined,
  • violent,
  • tactless,
  • cursory,
  • hot,
  • disordered,
  • tornadic,
  • storm,
  • adventurous,
  • wavery,
  • temporary,
  • wavering,
  • rambling,
  • ungovernable,
  • unrestrained,
  • passing,
  • bent on,
  • overzealous,
  • wishy-washy,
  • unaccountable,
  • shuffling,
  • panicky,
  • vacillating,
  • Unstaid,
  • perishable,
  • set on,
  • unreasonable,
  • amorphous,
  • absorbing,
  • short,
  • warm-blooded,
  • shortness,
  • in a sweat,
  • irrational,
  • insensitive,
  • frenetic,
  • lightning,
  • chaotic,
  • precipitant,
  • vigorous,
  • nondurable,
  • intent on,
  • impatient,
  • Scrambling,
  • in a lather,
  • hare-brained,
  • passionate,
  • brusqueness,
  • unmindful,
  • headlong,
  • impulsiveness,
  • full of pep,
  • wild,
  • take charge,
  • breathless,
  • short-sighted,
  • wrong-headed,
  • variable,
  • aggressive,
  • silly,
  • in a stew,
  • dizzy,
  • burning,
  • fluctuating,
  • uptight,
  • excitable,
  • unreliable,
  • randy,
  • intense,
  • excited,
  • brusque,
  • unbridled,
  • precipitancy,
  • smacking,
  • unprompted,
  • mutinous,
  • turbulent,
  • zealous,
  • anxious,
  • reflex,
  • fidgety,
  • wandering,
  • hasty,
  • unguarded,
  • penetrating,
  • chafing,
  • mad,
  • inconsiderate,
  • mindless,
  • enthusiastic,
  • shapeless,
  • courageous,
  • flying,
  • harsh,
  • misguided,
  • desultory,
  • rashly,
  • squirmy,
  • short-lived,
  • desperate,
  • blind,
  • frail,
  • unthoughtful,
  • squirming,
  • antsy,
  • incisive,
  • vacuous,
  • heedless,
  • irascible,
  • unruly,
  • unwise,
  • unstable,
  • moody,
  • fickle,
  • gruffness,
  • ephemeral,
  • helter-skelter,
  • restive,
  • bent upon,
  • insane,
  • freakish,
  • crazy,
  • brisk,
  • heat,
  • natural,
  • tumultuous,
  • unreasoning,
  • itchy,
  • Vicissitudinous,
  • transient,
  • vibrant,
  • sudden,
  • accident-prone,
  • unanticipated,
  • vehemence,
  • unbidden,
  • irregular,
  • rampant,
  • unforeseen,
  • intrepid,
  • brittle,
  • touchy,
  • dynamic,
  • fleeting,
  • hysterical,
  • rapid,
  • mazy,
  • animated,
  • Hot-headed,
  • sharp,
  • active,
  • self-willed.

Antonyms for Impetuous:

• adj.

  • acting without thinking
    thoughtful, calm, considerate, sensible, wise, cautious, circumspect, reflective.
  • Other antonyms:
    uninterested, negligent, stolid, apathetic, dispassionate, indifferent, cold, calm, unmoved, unforceful, forceless, phlegmatic, regardless, heedless, unconcerned, unmindful, purposeless, careless, cool, frigid, stony.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    calm, considered, leisurely, mild, reflective, sensible, slow, sluggish, wary, weak, wise.