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Word Meanings - IMPOLITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure. The most unjust and impolitic of all things, unequal taxation. Burke. Syn. -- Indiscreet; inexpedient;

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Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure. The most unjust and impolitic of all things, unequal taxation. Burke. Syn. -- Indiscreet; inexpedient; undiplomatic.

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  • UNWISE
    Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
  • WANTLESS
    Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
  • WANTON
    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • IMPOLITICNESS
    The quality of being impolitic.
  • INEXPEDIENT
    Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
  • WANTWIT
    One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
  • IMPOLITICAL
    Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
  • 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.
  • POLITICLY
    In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.
  • MEASURER
    One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
  • POLITICALLY
    1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
  • WANTONNESS
    The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
  • CONTRARY
    Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
  • IMPOLITICLY
    In an impolitic manner.
  • INDISCREET
    Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak. Syn. -- Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty; incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. -- In`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- In`dis*creet"ness, n. (more
  • UNEQUALNESS
    The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
  • WANTAGE
    That which is wanting; deficiency.
  • MEASURELESS
    Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
  • ANGWANTIBO
    A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
  • METROPOLITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
  • IMMEASURED
    Immeasurable. Spenser.
  • IMPOLICY
    The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
  • ADMEASURE
    To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
  • MISPOLICY
    Wrong policy; impolicy.
  • REMEASURE
    To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
  • OUTMEASURE
    To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
  • 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.

 

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