Impertinent vs Unabashed - What's the difference?
impertinent | unabashed | Related terms |
insolent, ill-mannered
* Tillotson
* Jeremy Taylor
irrelevant (opposite of pertinent)
An impertinent individual.
* (Maria Edgeworth)
Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
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*:For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed .
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*:Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
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*:; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
Impertinent is a related term of unabashed.
As adjectives the difference between impertinent and unabashed
is that impertinent is insolent, ill-mannered while unabashed is not disconcerted or embarrassed.As a noun impertinent
is an impertinent individual.impertinent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- things that are impertinent to us
- How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
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 alsoNoun
(en noun)- comfortably recessed from curious impertinents
