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Injudicious vs Imprudent - What's the difference?

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Imprudent is a synonym of injudicious.


As adjectives the difference between injudicious and imprudent

is that injudicious is showing poor judgement; not well judged while imprudent is not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.

injudicious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , section 3, § 18:
  • By introducing, into any composition, personages and actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious author loses that communication of emotions,
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  • Synonyms

    * imprudent * unwise

    Antonyms

    * judicious

    Derived terms

    * injudiciously

    imprudent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
  • * 1711 , , The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker , volume 1.
  • Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.
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  • , year=1853 , author=Mary Elizabeth Braddon , title=Phantom Fortune , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘It was a most 'imprudent thing to go up Helvellyn in such weather,’ said Fräulein Müller, shaking her head gloomily as she ate her fish.}}
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  • , year=1864 , author=Jules Verne , title=Journey to the Interior of the Earth , chapter=3 citation , passage=My uncle, falling back into his absorbing contemplations, had already forgotten my imprudent' words. I merely say ' imprudent , for the great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for love affairs, and happily the grand business of the document gained me the victory.}}

    Synonyms

    * indiscreet, injudicious, incautious, ill-advised, unwise, heedless, careless, rash, negligent