injudicious
/ˌɪnd͡ʒʊˈdɪʃəs/
injudicious adjective: showing poor judgement; not well judged.
Adjective
injudicious (comparative more injudicious, superlative most injudicious)
- Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
- By introducing, into any Composition, Personages and Actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious Author loses that Communication of Emotions, by which alone he can interest the Heart, and raise the Passions to their proper Height and Period.1748, David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, London: A. Millar, Essay 3, page 45
- In a general light, private theatricals are open to some objections, but as we are circumstanced, I must think it would be highly injudicious, and more than injudicious, to attempt any thing of the kind.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 260–261
injudicious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
injudicious in Tamil
- ஆராயாது துணியப்பட்ட, நடுநிலை பிறழ்ந்த
injudicious in Urdu
- بےتدبیر, کوتاہ اندیش
injudicious in Malayalam
- inadvisable, imprudent, unwise
- വിവേകശൂന്യമായ, വിചാരഹീനമായ, അവിവേകമായ, അവിചാരപൂർവ്വകമായ, നീതിയുക്തമല്ലാത്ത, ന്യായയുക്തമല്ലാത്ത
injudicious in Kannada
- ವಿವೇಚನೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ವಿವೇಕವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಅಯುಕ್ತ, ಅನುಚಿತ, ತಿಳಿವಿಲ್ಲದ, ತಪ್ಪಾದ
Synonyms of injudicious
Antonyms
Forms of injudicious
| comparative | more injudicious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most injudicious |
Origin of injudicious
From in- + judicious.
Words formed from injudicious
Words that rhyme with injudicious
Questions about injudicious
- What does injudicious mean?
- Injudicious means showing poor judgement; not well judged.
- What is injudicious in Tamil?
- Injudicious in Tamil is ஆராயாது துணியப்பட்ட, நடுநிலை பிறழ்ந்த. See Injudicious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is injudicious?
- Injudicious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce injudicious?
- Injudicious is pronounced /ˌɪnd͡ʒʊˈdɪʃəs/.
Words near injudicious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: injudicious (page history and authors); injudicious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injudicious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); injudicious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); injudicious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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