impetuous
adjectiveActing hastily on impulse without enough consideration.
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Clear all filtersActing hastily on impulse without enough consideration.
Unable to be appeased or persuaded to relent.
Not seeming reasonable or believable.
To put a plan, decision, or method into effect.
A possible consequence or a meaning suggested without being stated directly.
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Understood or suggested without being stated directly.
To collapse inward or undergo internal breakdown.
To collapse inward or undergo internal breakdown
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To ask urgently and earnestly.
To suggest or communicate something indirectly.
To make poor or seriously reduce available resources.
Unlikely to happen or to be true.
Done or spoken with little or no advance preparation.
With little preparation
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Conduct or expression considered improper or unsuitable.
Rudely bold or disrespectful.
To challenge the truth, integrity, or validity of something.
Acting on a sudden urge without much prior consideration.
Freedom from punishment or adverse consequences for wrongdoing.
An attribution, especially an allegation of fault or wrongdoing.
To attribute a quality, action, or fault to someone.
In place of something else.
Insufficient in amount, quality, or ability for a particular purpose.
One word family: also includes inadequacy.
Insufficient for the purpose
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Unintentional or resulting from inattention.
Unable to be taken away or transferred.
Lacking sense, significance, or substance.
Without sense or substance
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