| 单词 | impulsive |
| 释义 | impulsive (once / 821 pages) 1adj 2adj If someone is impulsive, it means that they act on instinct, without thinking decisions through. If you worked for an entire year to save money for a car and then suddenly decided to spend it all on an outfit instead, that would be an impulsive purchase. Impulses are short, quick feelings, and if someone is in the habit of acting on them, they're impulsive. When stores stock chocolate at the checkout line, they are hoping you will impulsively decide to buy it. When you call the person you have a crush on after promising yourself all day to maintain an air of dignified reserve, that's impulsive behavior. We might also call impulsive behavior whimsical or capricious. WORD FAMILYimpulsive: impulsively, impulsiveness, impulsiver+/impel: impelled, impellent, impeller, impelling, impels, impulsion, impulsive/impeller: impellers/impelling: impellingly/impulsion: impulsions USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, markets will be driven up and down as much by Donald Trump’s impulsive tweets as by economic reality. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) “This is no job for impulsive, timid or inattentive souls.” New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Ideally, the President would never be short-tempered, impulsive, or clinically depressed. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1adj without forethought letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted Syn unpremeditated not premeditated 2adj characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers Syn brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway incautious lacking in caution 3adj determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason Syn capricious, whimsical arbitrary based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice 4adj proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus 2an impulsive gesture of affection Syn unprompted self-generated, spontaneous happening or arising without apparent external cause adj having the power of driving or impelling an impulsive force Syn driving dynamic, dynamical characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality |
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