impudent
English
Etymology
From Middle French impudent, from Latin impudēns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- + pudere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪmpjədənt/
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Adjective
impudent (comparative more impudent or (informal) impudenter, superlative most impudent or (informal) impudentest)
- Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
- Synonyms: bold, brazen-faced; see also Thesaurus:cheeky
- The impudent children would not stop talking in class.
- 1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 480:
- And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
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Translations
not showing due respect
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Catalan
Derived terms
- impudentment
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Further reading
- “impudent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “impudent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “impudent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “impudent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.py.dɑ̃/
Adjective
impudent (feminine impudente, masculine plural impudents, feminine plural impudentes)
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Further reading
- “impudent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Adjective
impudent m (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudens, feminine plural impudentes)
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