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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless |
| Synonyms: | asleep at the switch, daydreaming, disregardful, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy, goofing off, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, irreflective, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, out to lunch, precipitate, rash, reckless, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, uncaring, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, unwary |
| Antonyms: | attentive, careful, caring, cautious, concerned, heedful, observant, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | impetuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acting without thinking |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, ardent, eager, fervid, fierce, furious, going off deep end, hasty, headlong, hurried, impassioned, impulsive, passionate, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, restive, rushing, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, subitaneous, sudden, swift, unbridled, unexpected, unplanned, unpremeditated, unreflecting, unrestrained, unthinking, vehement, violent |
| Antonyms: | calm, cautious, circumspect, considerate, reflective, sensible, thoughtful, wise |
| Main Entry: | impulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tending to act without thought |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, ad-lib, automatic, careless, devil-may-care, emotional, extemporaneous, flaky*, gone off deep end, hasty, headlong, hot-and-cold, impetuous, instinctive, intuitive, involuntary, jumping the gun, mad, offhand, passionate, precipitate, quick, rash, spontaneous, sudden, swift, unconsidered, unexpected, unmeditated, unpredictable, unpremeditated, unprompted, up-and-down, violent, winging it |
| Notes: | a compulsive eater is compelled by an exterior force to eat and eats constantly; an impulsive eater is impelled (has an impulse) to eat, occurring sporadically, and eats only from time to time |
| Antonyms: | cautious, considering, heedful, premeditative, thoughtful, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incautious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not careful |
| Synonyms: | any old way, bold, brash, careless, caught napping, devil-may-care, fast-and-loose, foot-in-mouth, hasty, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, ill-judged, impetuous, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, madcap, neglectful, negligent, off guard, pay no mind, playing with fire, precipitate, rash, reckless, regardless, sticking one's neck out, thoughtless, unalert, unguarded, unmindful, unthinking, unvigilant, unwatchful, wary, wide open |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, discreet, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | passionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited; enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | affecting, animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, dramatic, eager, eloquent, emotional, expressive, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forceful, frenzied, glowing, headlong, heartfelt, heated, high-powered, high-pressure, hot*, hotblooded, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, inspiring, intense, melodramatic, moving, poignant, precipitate, quickened, spirited, steamed up, stimulated, stirring, strong, thrilling, vehement, violent, warm, wild, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, dull, unenthusiastic, unexcited, unpassionate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plummet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall hard and fast |
| Synonyms: | collapse, crash, decline, decrease, descend, dip, dive, downturn, drop, drop down, dump, fall, nose-dive, plunge, precipitate, sink, skid, stoop, swoop, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascend, rise, shoot up |
| Main Entry: | precipitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | steep, falling sharply |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, arduous, craggy, dizzy, dizzying, high, perpendicular, precipitate, sharp, sheer |
| Notes: | precipitous 'hasty, sudden and dramatic' is used in relation to physical or natural objects; precipitate 'done with great haste' relates to human actions or processes |
| Antonyms: | gradual |
| Main Entry: | premature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earlier in occurrence than anticipated |
| Synonyms: | a bit previous, abortive, early on, embryonic, forward, green*, immature, incomplete, inopportune, overearly, oversoon, precipitate, predeveloped, previous, raw*, soon, unanticipated, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, untimely |
| Antonyms: | backward, delayed, late, mature, overdue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | premature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rash, impulsive |
| Synonyms: | half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, ill-considered, inopportune, jumping the gun, overhasty, precipitate, previous, too soon, untimely |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, prepared, slow |
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