Dictionary Definition
imprudence n : a lack of caution in practical
affairs [ant: prudence]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.
- An imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absurdity, act of folly,
blunder, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, callowness, casualness, cheek, childishness, chutzpah, crudity of intellect,
dumb trick, folly,
gall, heroics, hubris, immaturity, improvidence, impudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration,
indiscreetness,
indiscretion,
indiscriminateness,
indiscrimination,
inexpedience,
injudiciousness,
insensibility,
insensitivity,
insolence, irrationality, lack of
feeling, lack of refinement, overboldness, overcarelessness,
overconfidence,
oversureness,
overweeningness,
pompousness,
promiscuity,
promiscuousness,
puerility, rashness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sottise, stuffiness, stupid thing,
stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, temerariousness,
temerity, thoughtlessness,
unchariness,
uncriticalness,
undiscriminatingness,
undiscriminativeness,
unfastidiousness,
unintelligence,
unmeticulousness,
unparticularness,
unpreciseness,
unreason, unreasonableness,
unselectiveness,
unsensibleness,
unsoundness,
untactfulness,
unthoughtfulness,
unwariness, unwisdom, unwise step, unwiseness, witlessness