impetuous

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/imˈpɛt͡ʃuəs/

adjective

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She's so impetuous; I wish she would consider things before acting.
1917, revised 1925, Ezra Pound, "Canto I" Unsheathed the narrow sword, I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead […]

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Don't be so impetuous.
But it was natural, that the impetuous, restless young artist should incline more to excess of strength than of delicacy in his playing.
The shrewd kind confidant used gently to hint the sad fact to the impetuous hero of this piece. The impetuous hero knew this quite well.

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But it was natural, that the impetuous, restless young artist should incline more to excess of strength than of delicacy in his playing.
1880, John Weeks Moore, “Beethoven, Louis Van”, in Complete Encyclopaedia of Music
The shrewd kind confidant used gently to hint the sad fact to the impetuous hero of this piece. The impetuous hero knew this quite well.
1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and...
The prime minister thought he could sagely steer his impetuous American friends away from actions they would later regret. It turns out they were just playing him for a patsy[.]
2003 March 16, Terry Jones, “Poor Tony Blair wakes up”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
How these developments might come about and what they will mean for humanity seems far more important to probe than Isaacson’s preferred focus on explaining Musk’s abusive, erratic, impetuous behavior.
2023 September 24, Sarah Frier, “We Don’t Need Another Antihero”, in The Atlantic
For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311

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From Middle English impetuous, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“attack, violence”).