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impulsive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of impulsive

1 caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urge

an impulsive purchase of a very expensive jacket

Synonyms of impulsive

besetting, compulsive, driven, obsessional, obsessive

Words Related to impulsive

irrepressible, uncontrollable

automatic, instinctive, involuntary, knee-jerk, reflex, spontaneous

conditioned, mechanical

unconscious, unthinking, unwitting

capricious, unpredictable, whimsical

Near Antonyms of impulsive

unforced, voluntary, willful (or wilful)

controllable, manageable, resistible

2 prone to sudden illogical changes of mind, ideas, or actions

an impulsive woman who never seems to have the same opinion about anything for longer than 10 minutes

Synonyms of impulsive

capricious, freakish, whimsical

Words Related to impulsive

impetuous, mercurial, moody, temperamental, volatile

crankish, eccentric, flaky, quirky

arbitrary, erratic, fickle, inconstant, irregular, shaky, willful (or wilful)

impractical, quixotic, quixotical, romantic, unrealistic, utopian, visionary

Near Antonyms of impulsive

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

spontaneous, impulsive, instinctive, automatic, mechanical mean acting or activated without deliberation. spontaneous implies lack of prompting and connotes naturalness.

- a spontaneous burst of applause

impulsive implies acting under stress of emotion or spirit of the moment.

- impulsive acts of violence

instinctive stresses action involving neither judgment nor will.

- blinking is an instinctive reaction

automatic implies action engaging neither the mind nor the emotions and connotes a predictable response.

- his denial was automatic

mechanical stresses the lifeless, often perfunctory character of the response.

- a mechanical teaching method

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