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Impertinent vs Impertinently - What's the difference?

impertinent | impertinently |

As an adjective impertinent

is insolent, ill-mannered.

As a noun impertinent

is an impertinent individual.

As an adverb impertinently is

in an impertinent manner.

impertinent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • insolent, ill-mannered
  • * Tillotson
  • things that are impertinent to us
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
  • irrelevant (opposite of pertinent)
  • Usage notes

    Although, historically, definition 2 was the original (derived from the French below) usage; meaning gradually changed to definition 1. More recently general usage has come to, once again, incorporate definition 2. As many older speakers will consider definition 2 incorrect, avoiding the word altogether may be advisable. The construction "not pertinent" is one possible alternative.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impertinent individual.
  • * (Maria Edgeworth)
  • comfortably recessed from curious impertinents
    ----

    impertinently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an impertinent manner.
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