The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impetuous \Im*pet"u*ous\, a. [F. impetueux, L. impetuosus. See Impetus.]
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Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed.
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Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.
The people, on their holidays, Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable.
--Milton.Syn: Forcible; rapid; hasty; precipitate; furious; boisterous; violent; raging; fierce; passionate. -- Im*pet"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pet"u*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an impetuous manner; with sudden force; violently; rashly.
WordNet
adv. in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions; "he often acts impulsively and later regrets it" [syn: impulsively]
Usage examples of "impetuously".
Steve Kilroy should have thought of that before, at the time when he had so impetuously played a hunch without waiting to find The Shadow and inform him.
The perspiration dripped on him off my head, my drill coat clung to my wet back: the afternoon breeze swept impetuously over the row of bedsteads, the stiff folds of curtains stirred perpendicularly, rattling on brass rods, the covers of empty beds blew about noiselessly near the bare floor all along the line, and I shivered to the very marrow.
And when I opened mine, there they were, two sets of double checks, on acting impetuously and on not accepting criticism, and single checks on everything else.
For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest.
Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flaming yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond of Amelia as ever.
Didn't she carry enough mad money in her purse to take care of her in case she impetuously committed a murder?
Even as head of research and development at Sandberg Pharmaceutical outside of Poughkeepsie (not a job to shake a stick at, she'd reminded him on the dozens of occasions when he wanted impetuously to quit), he'd obsessed about being an entrepreneur.