[
US
/ˌɪmˈpəɫsɪv/
]
[ UK /ɪmpˈʌlsɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈʌlsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
an impulsive gesture of affection -
having the power of driving or impelling
the driving force was his innate enthusiasm
an impulsive force
a driving personal ambition -
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
an impetuous display of spending and gambling
a hotheaded decision
madcap escapades
liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers -
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious
the victim of whimsical persecutions
a capricious refusal -
without forethought
letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted
How To Use impulsive In A Sentence
- His impulsive temperament regularly got him into difficulties.
- His love-making is passionate and impulsive, joyous almost to rowdyism. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- All three impulsively committed a felonious act that lead to their incarceration, i.e., attempted murder and kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder.
- Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, the impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered.
- Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality. Clinical Work with Adolescents
- The impulsive force of breath is the motive force of sound production when a person is singing; so it is the key link in vocal music training.
- Both the proposed method and finite element method were applied to analyze the dynamic responses of a two-layer plate subjected to rectangular impulsive load, and the results show a good agreement.
- The schizoid devours the eyewinker may be caused by thinking obstacle, also may be the method that a kind of impulsive act perhaps considers to serve as the suicide with this.
- She must be wise but impulsive, empathic yet distant.
- If the characters are domesticated, if they never act impulsively and if they are almost sexless and sterile, then they represent no threat to the system.