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impulsive
Synonyms and Antonyms of impulsive
- an impulsive purchase of a very expensive jacket
- He's impulsive and often does things he later regrets.
down-to-earth, earthy, hard-boiled, hardheaded, levelheaded, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic (also pragmatical), reasonable, sensible, tough-minded
commonsensical, grounded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, sane, sober, sobersided, sound
fast, fixed, hard-and-fast, immutable, inflexible, invariable, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
changeless, constant, established, set, settled, stable, steadfast, steady, unchanging, unvarying
Synonym Discussion of impulsive
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- a spontaneous burst of applause
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- impulsive acts of violence
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- blinking is an instinctive reaction
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- his denial was automatic
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- a mechanical teaching method
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