Word Meanings - IMPULSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body. 4. A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive;

Additional info about word: IMPULSE

The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body. 4. A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will. These were my natural impulses for the undertaking. Dryden. Syn. -- Force; incentive; influence; motive; feeling; incitement; instigation. (more info) 1. The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately. All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse. S. Clarke. 2. The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPULSE)

• Brunt
• Impulse
• attack
• aggression
• onslaught
• onset
• assault
• shock
• Influence
• Effect
• control
• causation
• affection
• impulse
• power
• credit
• character
• sway
• weight
• ascendancy
• prestige
• authority
• Inspiration
• Poesy
• frenzy
• revelation
• intuition
• afflatus
• Instinct
• Prompting
• inclination
• Motive
• Inducement
• purpose
• design
• prompting
• stimulus
• reason
• incitement

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPULSE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to IMPULSE)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• INTUITION
  1. A looking after; a regard to. What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller. 2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• INSTINCTION
  Instinct; incitement; inspiration. Sir T. Elyot.
• CREDIT FONCIER
  A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• INSTINCT
  Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham. (more info) instigate, incite;
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.