Presumptuous vs Imprudent - What's the difference?
presumptuous | imprudent |
Going beyond what is right, proper, or appropriate because of an excess of self-confidence or arrogance.
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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As adjectives the difference between presumptuous and imprudent
is that presumptuous is going beyond what is right, proper, or appropriate because of an excess of self-confidence or arrogance while imprudent is not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.presumptuous
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (going beyond what is proper) overconfident, foolhardy, rash, presuming, forward, arrogant, insolent, conceitedimprudent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.
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.}}
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.}}