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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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uneven
English
Etymology
From Middle English uneven, from Old English unefen (“unequal, unlike, dissimilar, diverse, irregular”), equivalent to un- +? even. Cognate with Dutch oneven (“unequal, uneven, odd”), German uneben (“uneven, rough, irregular, bumpy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?iv?n/
- Rhymes: -i?v?n
Adjective
uneven (comparative more uneven, superlative most uneven)
- Not even
- Not level or smooth
- Not uniform
- Varying in quality
- (mathematics, rare) Odd
- Antonym: even
Synonyms
- rough
Derived terms
- unevenly
- unevenness
Translations
See also
- irregular
- unequal
Verb
uneven (third-person singular simple present unevens, present participle unevening, simple past and past participle unevened)
- (transitive) To make uneven.
- 1993, Travel Holiday (volume 176, page 56)
- Initially it nestled among the dozens of Indian mounds that unevened the earth near the river until they were leveled to accommodate commerce.
- 2006, Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (page 128)
- First, of course, the war reduced the white male, mostly young adult, population by more than a quarter-million, unevening the sex ratio and connubial and other opportunities for women for perhaps a generation.
- 1993, Travel Holiday (volume 176, page 56)
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