What does impertinent mean?
Impertinent means Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful..
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/ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/ · adjective
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.”
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!
Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.
Use impertinent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Impertinent means Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful..
Common synonyms include nonpertinent, impudent, spirited, extraneous.
Possible antonyms include pertinent, relevant.
“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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