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# impetuous

«impetuous» in Mova's school dictionary: **acting quickly and rashly, without stopping to think** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Impetuous means acting quickly and rashly, without stopping to think. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impetuous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a young hero who asks for something dangerous without waiting to consider it

### examples

- The impetuous youth asked to drive the sun's chariot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impetuous/#x1)
- Don't be so impetuous; think first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impetuous/#x2)
- An impetuous child may run before looking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impetuous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impetuous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impetuous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.