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imprudence
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imprudence
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indiscretion |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, foolishness, neglect, recklessness |
| Main Entry: | foolishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiocy, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, mistake, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence, sense, seriousness, thoughtfulness, wiseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indiscretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
| Synonyms: | bumble, crudeness, dropping the ball, dumb move, error, excitability, faux pas, folly, fool mistake, foolishness, foul-up, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hastiness, imprudence, indiscreetness, ingenuousness, lapse, miscue, misjudgment, misspeak, naiveté, rashness, recklessness, screw-up, simple-mindedness, slip of the tongue, slip*, slip-up, stumble, stupidity, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, unseemliness |
| Antonyms: | care, discreetness, discretion, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | error, goof |
| Synonyms: | blooper, blunder, bungle, failure, fault, flub, fluff, foul-up, gaff, howler, imprudence, indiscretion, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, omission, oversight, screw-up, slip of the tongue, slip-up, trip |
| Antonyms: | correction, perfection, success |
| Main Entry: | temerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, audacity |
| Synonyms: | assurance, boldness, brass, carelessness, daring, effrontery, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, impertinence, impetuosity, imprudence, impudence, impulsiveness, indiscretion, intrepidity, intrusiveness, overconfidence, pluck, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, presumption, rashness, recklessness, rudeness, thoughtlessness, venturesomeness |
| Notes: | temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or hesitancy |
| Antonyms: | care, caution, cowardice, forethought, hesitation |
| Main Entry: | stupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness of mind |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, apathy, asininity, battiness, brainlessness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, imprudence, incapacity, ineptitude, injudiciousness, insensibility, lunacy, nitwittedness, nonsense, obtuseness, puerility, shallowness, silliness, simplicity, slowness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupidness, stupor, thick-headedness, weak-mindedness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | intelligence, judgment, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | hooey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, ja |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imbecility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, idiocy, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, mistake, nonsense, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness*, witlessness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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