Impertinent

Quick meaning: Impertinent is an adjective meaning Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.

Meaning

Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.

More Meanings

1. An impertinent individual.
2. (archaic) Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.

Example Sentences

How impertinent that grief was which served no end!

Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.

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

“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.”

Word Forms

• impertinents

Synonyms for impertinent

Depending on context, synonyms include nonpertinent, impudent, spirited, extraneous, immaterial, fresh.

Antonyms for impertinent

Common opposites include pertinent, relevant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impudent, irreverent, pert, irrelevant, immaterial, overbold.

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