Word Meanings - UNPRUDENTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imprudent. "The most unwise and unprudential act." Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNPRUDENTIAL)

• UNWISE
  Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
• IMPRUDENT
  Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn.
• UNPRUDENTIAL
  Imprudent. "The most unwise and unprudential act." Milton.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• UNWISELY
  In an unwise manner; foolishly.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SUNWISE
  In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.