IMPERTINENT


Meaning of IMPERTINENT in English

adj. 25B6; adjective

she asked a lot of impertinent questions : RUDE, insolent, impolite, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, uncivil, discourteous, disrespectful; impudent, cheeky, audacious, bold, brazen, brash, presumptuous, forward; tactless, undiplomatic; informal brass-necked, saucy; N. Amer. informal sassy; archaic contumelious.

(formal) talk of ‘rhetoric’ is impertinent to this process : IRRELEVANT, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, immaterial, unrelated, unconnected, not germane; beside the point, out of place.

polite, relevant.

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