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How to use impulsive in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective, noun

Impulsive means having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent. Example: “While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.”

More sentences with impulsive

  • While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.From the entry quality
  • My initial, impulsive (and very Yodalike) reply would be: "Surely he is not who must ask."2004, Thomas F. Monteleone, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel. From the entry Yodalike
  • She was a terrible stu­dent, impulsive, hyperac­tive, completely absent-minded and a troublemaker.1976 June 10, Victoria Graham, “Slow learners present new kind of problem”, in Progress Bulletin, volume 92, number 132, Pomona, Calif.…. From the entry would lose one's head if it weren't attached
  • You were always such an impulsive, reckless sort of fellow—never quiet.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry fearful
  • Impulsive Sagittarius can also seem flaky to homebody Cancer.2023 March 7, Jake Register, Marielle Marlys, Erika W. Smith, “Everything You Need to Know About Dating a Cancer Man”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry Netflix and chill
  • Slightly more complex than impulsive patterns are contactive patterns.1983, John R. Bittner, Each Other: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication, page 122. From the entry contactive
  • What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28. From the entry rummy
  • Compared with the female, the male animal is katabolic; he is active, impulsive, destructive, skilful, creative, intense, spasmodic, violent.1912, Earl Barnes, Woman in Modern Society. From the entry katabolic
  • But his overbearing and impulsive nature was inclined to arouse the hostility not so much of Alexander as of his younger Companions.1992, Waldemar Heckel, “[The 'New Men'] Hephaistion: omnium amicorum carissimus”, in The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire, London; New York…. From the entry Makedonian
  • And if anyone was impulsive enough to finish his ration too quickly, then he ate butterless, marmaladeless breakfasts until the next ration period came round.1958 June, Sarel Eimerl, “Oxford Rations”, in Earle R. MacAusland, editor, Gourmet […], volume XVIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Gourmet…. From the entry marmaladeless
  • The state of apprehension already mentioned as the only conscious feeling of intensity may exceptionally lead to impulsive acts or to a paraphobia.1918, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 94, page 284. From the entry paraphobia
  • The type III pairs occurring in flare impulsive phase have lower separate frequency, longer lifetime, wider frequency gap, and slower frequency drift than that occurring in postflare phase.2016, Baolin Tan, Hana Meszarosova, Marian Karlicky, Guangli Huang, Chengming Tan, “Microwave Type III Pair Bursts in Solar Flares”, in…. From the entry postflare
  • The misophonia patients shared a similar pattern of symptoms in which an auditory or visual stimulus provoked an immediate aversive physical reaction with anger, disgust and impulsive aggression.2013 January 23, Arjan Schröder et al., “Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorder”, in PLOS One, →DOI. From the entry misophonia
  • To these impulsive, quick-hearted children of the sun, impressions on their swift and delicate sense were interesting and absorbing chiefly as feeling, pleasant, painful or neutral.1912, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm, page 65. From the entry quick-hearted

Meaning of impulsive

  1. adjective Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
  2. adjective Actuated by impulse or by transient feelings; inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration.
  3. adjective Of a force, acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous.

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Questions about impulsive in a sentence

How do you use impulsive in a sentence?
Impulsive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.”
What is a short sentence with impulsive?
“What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.””
What does impulsive mean?
Impulsive means having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.

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