impertinent
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/ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/
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/ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/ (UK) · /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/ (US) · /ɪmˈpɝt.nənt/ (US)
Definition of impertinent
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
““Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.””
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adj
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Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
““Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.””
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(archaic)Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
“Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness”
“How impertinent that grief was which served no end!”
noun
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An impertinent individual.
“Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
Words you can make from impertinent
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