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Definition of Imprudence
1. Noun. A lack of caution in practical affairs.
Specialized synonyms: Heedlessness, Mindlessness, Rashness, Improvidence, Shortsightedness
Derivative terms: Imprudent
Antonyms: Prudence
Definition of Imprudence
1. n. 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.
Definition of Imprudence
1. Noun. The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness. ¹
2. Noun. An imprudent act. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imprudence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprudence
Literary usage of Imprudence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1905)
"His companions suggested only what could palliate imprudence or smooth objections;
and by the time they had talked it all over together, and he had talked ..."
2. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"The most certain method of ascertaining the manner in which imprudence or negligence
operates in the ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... for though he never lost a battle, nothing is more astounding than his imprudence
and the easy confidence with which he trusted Somerset, Warwick, ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"Let none, therefore, presume to ascribe the victory " of the barbarians to the
fear, the weakness, or the imprudence oí " the Roman troops. ..."
5. An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer (1904)
"AN imprudence AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. 1867. jEr. 47. UP to this time I had not felt
the need for any assistance beyond that yielded by an ordinary amanuensis. ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"It can make no difference from what cause it proceeded—»"joiner trom the party's
own imprudence or misconduct or otherwise. It Is the state and condition of ..."
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