Definizione monolingua

imprudence

imprudence (usually uncountable; plural imprudences)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.
2. (countable) An imprudent act.
   • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)^[1]:

     At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.

   • 1891, Francois Coppee, Ten Tales^[2]:

     Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences.

   • 1903, S.C. Hill, Three Frenchmen in Bengal^[3]:

     This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences.

Definizione dizionario imprudence

imprudenza

Altri significati:

(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.

(countable) An imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.