All 5 Uses of
impetuous
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- The parrot fortunately offered no further interruption to the entertainment, the whole venom of his nature apparently having been cherished up and hurled against the twins in that one impetuous outburst.†
Chpt 9impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.
Chpt 20 *impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- Mrs. Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous volubility of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun.†
Chpt 30impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- I don't want you to sing it," and she laid her glass so impetuously and blindly upon the table as to shatter it against a carafe.†
Chpt 30impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- But remembering Edna's whimsical turn of mind of late, and foreseeing that she had immediately acted upon her impetuous determination, he grasped the situation with his usual promptness and handled it with his well-known business tact and cleverness.†
Chpt 32impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
Definitions:
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(impetuous as in: an impetuous decision) impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought) -- often with an unfortunate consequence
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In historic literature, impetuous often refers to any rapid, forceful, and/or violent movement.