impertinent
adjetivosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt//
- Estados Unidos//ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt//
- Estados Unidos//ɪmˈpɝt.nənt//
Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
adjetivo
- 1
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.”
- 2
arcaicoNot pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
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!
Etimologia
Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
substantivo
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An impertinent individual.
Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.
Formas
- plural
- impertinents
- comparativo
- more impertinent
- superlativo
- most impertinent
impertinent · Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
implant · To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.implement · To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.implied · Suggested without being stated directly; implicated or hinted…