IMPETUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impetuously mean? 

• IMPETUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPETUOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions

  Familiarity information: IMPETUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPETUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions

Synonyms:

impetuously; impulsively

Context example:

he often acts impulsively and later regrets it

Pertainym:

impetuous (characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation)

 Context examples 

They were all unusually hungry, having waited nearly an hour, and for a minute no one spoke, only a minute, for Jo exclaimed impetuously, "I'm so glad you came before we began!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Never pausing for an answer to anything he said, Traddles, who had clapped me into an easy-chair by the fire, all this time impetuously stirred the fire with one hand, and pulled at my neck-kerchief with the other, under some wild delusion that it was a great-coat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I have worked, I do work,” I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With that she rushed across the street so impetuously that she narrowly escaped annihilation from a passing truck, and precipitated herself into the arms of a stately old gentleman, who said, I beg pardon, ma'am, and looked mortally offended.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur, and must bear; comprised what I felt and what I had learned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"What do you think?" he demanded impetuously.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)