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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)
- 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!
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- 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)
- An impertinent individual.
- 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life
- comfortably recessed from curious impertinents
- 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
impertinent (comparative impertinenter, superlative impertinentst)
- insolent, ill-mannered
Inflection
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??.ti.n??/
Adjective
impertinent (feminine singular impertinente, masculine plural impertinents, feminine plural impertinentes)
- 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)
- 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)
- impertinent
Declension
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inclement
English
Etymology
From Latin incl?m?ns (“unmerciful, severe”), from in- (“not”) + cl?m?ns (“mild, placid”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?n?kl?m.?nt/, /??n.kl?m.?nt/
Adjective
inclement (comparative more inclement, superlative most inclement)
- Stormy, of rough weather
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, verse 425
- Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky; / Save on that side which from the wall of Heaven, / Though distant far, some small reflection gains / Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, verse 1060
- How much more, if we pray him, will his ear / Be open, and his heart to pitie incline, / And teach us further by what means to shun / Th’ inclement Seasons, Rain, Ice, Hail and Snow, / Which now the Skie with various Face begins.
- The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 35
- Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow’s-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, third book, fifth chapter
- From that time, in all weathers, she waited there two hours. As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away. When it was not too wet or inclement for her child to be with her, they went together; at other times she was alone; but, she never missed a single day.
- 1901 to 1902, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, chapter 3
- The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement. Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, verse 425
- (obsolete) Merciless, unrelenting.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 34
- He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 34
- (archaic) Unmercifully severe in temper or action.
Antonyms
- clement
Related terms
- inclemency
- inclemently
Derived terms
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French inclément
Adjective
inclement m or n (feminine singular inclement?, masculine plural inclemen?i, feminine and neuter plural inclemente)
- merciless
Declension
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