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impertinent

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As an adjective, impertinent means insolent, ill-mannered. As a noun, it means an impertinent individual.

Meanings of impertinent

6 meanings

adjective

  1. Insolent, ill-mannered.

  2. Irrelevant, useless.

  3. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality

    “a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner”

    Similar: irreverent, pert, saucy

  4. Not pertinent to the matter under consideration

    “an issue extraneous to the debate”

    “the price was immaterial”

    “mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point”

    Similar: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal

  5. Improperly forward or bold

    “don't be fresh with me”

    “impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup”

    “an impudent boy given to insulting strangers”

    Similar: fresh, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy

noun

  1. An impertinent individual.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for impertinent →
adjective: characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
irreverentpertsaucy
adjective: not pertinent to the matter under consideration
extraneousimmaterialorthogonal
adjective: improperly forward or bold
freshimpudentoverboldsmartsaucysassywise

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