Injudicious vs Imprudent - What's the difference?
injudicious | imprudent | Synonyms |
Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , section 3, § 18:
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Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
* 1711 , , The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker , volume 1.
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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)- By introducing, into any composition, personages and actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious author loses that communication of emotions,
Synonyms
* imprudent * unwiseAntonyms
* judiciousDerived terms
* injudiciouslyimprudent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.
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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.}}