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Impertinent vs Turbulent - What's the difference?

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Impertinent is a related term of turbulent.


As adjectives the difference between impertinent and turbulent

is that impertinent is insolent, ill-mannered while turbulent is violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.

As a noun impertinent

is an impertinent individual.

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

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    Noun

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

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
  • Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}

    Derived terms

    * turbulently * turbulent flow