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impertinent

English

Etymology

From Old French impertinent.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?m.?p??.t?.n?nt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?m.?p?.t?.n?nt/

Adjective

impertinent (comparative more impertinent, superlative most impertinent)

  1. insolent, ill-mannered.
    • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
      Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness
    • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
      How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
  2. irrelevant.
    Antonyms: pertinent, relevant

Usage notes

  • Although definition 2 was the original meaning (derived from the French), the meaning gradually changed to definition 1. More recently, general usage has come to once again incorporate definition 2, though older speakers may consider definition 2 incorrect. The construction "not pertinent" is one possible alternative.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:cheeky

Translations

Noun

impertinent (plural impertinents)

  1. An impertinent individual.
    • 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life
      comfortably recessed from curious impertinents

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

impertinent (comparative impertinenter, superlative impertinentst)

  1. insolent, ill-mannered

Inflection


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.p??.ti.n??/

Adjective

impertinent (feminine singular impertinente, masculine plural impertinents, feminine plural impertinentes)

  1. insolent, ill-mannered

Further reading

  • “impertinent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

impertinent (comparative impertinenter, superlative am impertinentesten)

  1. insolent, ill-mannered

Declension

Related terms

  • Impertinenz

Further reading

  • “impertinent” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French impertinent, from Latin impertinens.

Adjective

impertinent m or n (feminine singular impertinent?, masculine plural impertinen?i, feminine and neuter plural impertinente)

  1. impertinent

Declension

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brassy

English

Etymology 1

brass +? -y

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African) IPA(key): /?b???.si/, /?b?æs.i/
  • (US, Canada) enPR: br?s??, IPA(key): /?b?æs.i/
  • Rhymes: -??si, -æsi

Adjective

brassy (comparative brassier, superlative brassiest)

  1. Resembling brass.
    The cup had a brassy color.
  2. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
    Don't get brassy with me, young lady!
  3. Unfeeling; pitiless.
  4. Harsh in tone.
    an organ stop with a brassy tone
Related terms
  • brass
  • brazen
Translations

Etymology 2

  • enPR: br?s??, IPA(key): /?b?æs.i/
  • Rhymes: -æsi

Noun

brassy (plural brassies)

  1. Alternative form of brassie (type of golf club)
  2. Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

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