| 单词 | impertinent |
| 释义 | impertinent (once / 722 pages) 1adj 2adj If someone's rude without being openly nasty, like a kid in the back row of class quietly heckling his teacher, you can call him impertinent. Impertinent originally meant just what it sounds like, "not pertinent, irrelevant," but it also came to mean "inappropriate, out of place" and therefore "intrusive, presumptuous; behaving without proper respect; insolent." It still carries a condescending air, so it's best used of or to a child being snippy to a grownup: "Don't be impertinent!" The stress is on the second syllable: im-PERT-inent. WORD FAMILYimpertinent: impertinence, impertinently+/impertinence: impertinences/pertain: pertained, pertaining, pertains, pertinence, pertinency, pertinent/pertinence: pertinences/pertinent: impertinent, pertinently USAGE EXAMPLESAnd then they were subject to what they are not used to: hard questions some might deem impertinent. BBC(Dec 05, 2016) But it’s definitely the kind of outside entertainment that can make a young mind impertinent, skeptical of authority, disinclined to join the rat race. Los Angeles Times(Oct 31, 2016) “You are a very naughty and impertinent little boy,” said Uncle Andrew. C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew(1955) 1 1adj improperly forward or bold impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup Syn fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise forward used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty 2adj characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality 2Syn irreverent, pert, saucy spirited displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness adj not pertinent to the matter under consideration mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point Syn extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal irrelevant having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue |
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