IMPUDENT Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

impudent

adjective

ˈim-pyə-dənt

as in insolent

displaying or marked by rude boldness the guest's impudent inquiries about the cost of just about everything we had in the house

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Recent Examples of impudent His first goal was pretty enough, an inch-perfect sidefoot just inside Donnarumma’s far post, but his second was a work of impudent art. —

Liam Twomey, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 Gemma reluctantly agrees to rebuild her impudent robot in a new body, and the sequel ends with an explosive showdown between Amelia and M3GAN, who nearly dies in a noble attempt to save Gemma and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw). —

Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025 Fortunately, Snow White’s newfound enlightenment does not deny her the possibility of romance, although princes are now strictly off-limits; her love interest here is a fetchingly impudent bandit, Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is leading a scrappy rebellion against the Evil Queen. —

Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025 One chord appears to speak to the other, sounding almost impudent in their simplicity, equal parts ecstatic and heartbreakingly melancholic. —

Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025 More specifically, the impudent Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time and turns Link into a Deku Scrub, those antagonistic tree cannons first introduced in Ocarina. —

Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024 Lisa is often out of the house and in motion: roaming the aisles of a pharmacy that’s open late and where no one seems to be working; on a bus contending with impudent youths; breaking the rules at a sleep clinic; wasted and lost after a bachelorette party. —

Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington. —

Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016

Recent Examples of Synonyms for impudent

Adjective

Malinin’s confidence would be insolent if his acrobatics weren’t so astonishing.

— Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
The fox would once have crushed this insolent creature with a swipe of her paw.

— Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025