Usually means: Lacking care for consequences; reckless.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprudent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imprudent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imprudent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imprudent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imprudent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imprudent, imprudent: Wordnik
  7. imprudent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imprudent: Wiktionary
  9. imprudent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imprudent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imprudent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Imprudent, imprudent: Dictionary.com
  13. Imprudent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. imprudent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. imprudent: Rhymezone
  16. Imprudent, imprudent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. imprudent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. imprudent: Free Dictionary
  19. imprudent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. imprudent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. imprudent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imprudent: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. IMPRUDENT: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not prudent; lacking prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not paying attention to the consequences of one's actions.

Similar:
ill-advised, indiscreet, improvident, injudicious, ill-judged, ill-considered, rash, blind, shortsighted, unprudent, more...

Opposite:
prudent, sensible, careful, wise

Types:
careless, foolish, unwise, unthinking, rash, incautious, thoughtless, more...

Phrases:
opposite of imprudent, more...

Adjectives:
little, highest, last, more, such, certain, inefficient, weak, negligent, shiftless, whole

Colors:
    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     chartreuse,     neon green, more...



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Similar:
ill-advised, indiscreet, improvident, injudicious, ill-judged, ill-considered, rash, blind, shortsighted, unprudent, more...

Opposite:
prudent, sensible, careful, wise

Types:
careless, foolish, unwise, unthinking, rash, incautious, thoughtless, more...

Phrases:
opposite of imprudent, more...

Adjectives:
little, highest, last, more, such, certain, inefficient, weak, negligent, shiftless, whole

Colors:
    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     chartreuse,     neon green, more...



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