Antonyms for impudent
ˈɪm pyə dəntim·pu·dent

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1. impudentadjective

   Synonyms:
   bold, brazen-faced, impertinent

2. impudentadjective

   Not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced

   The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

   Synonyms:
   brazen-faced, bold, impertinent

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. impudent

   Antonyms:
   accomplished, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, gracious, obliging, polished, polite, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered

   Synonyms:
   awkward, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusk, clownish, coarse, discourteous, ill-behaved, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, insolent, insulting, raw, rude, rustic, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, untaught, untutored

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1. impudent

   Antonyms:
   servile, obsequious, sycophantic, bashful, retiring, diffident, deferential, modest

   Synonyms:
   impertinent, insolent, saucy, shameless, brazen-faced, rude, bold, immodest

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flipadjective

   marked by casual disrespect

   "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

   Antonyms:
   respectful, backward

   Synonyms:
   insolent, impertinent, wise, smart, fresh, bodacious, barefaced, snotty-nosed, brazen-faced, flip, bald-faced, saucy, brassy, sassy, audacious, overbold, brazen

2. fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wiseadjective

   improperly forward or bold

   "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"

   Antonyms:
   backward, respectful

   Synonyms:
   invigorated, wise, flip, chic, brisk, saucy, heady, new, pert, wise(p), smart, sassy, overbold, judicious, orthogonal, irreverent, clean, insolent, sweet, immaterial, impertinent, fresh, snotty-nosed, knowing, reinvigorated, novel, refreshing, refreshful, unused, voguish, tonic, refreshed, bracing, wise to(p), extraneous, unfermented, bright

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1. impudentadjective

   Synonyms:
   insolent, impertinent, flippant, pert, brazen, saucy

How to use impudent in a sentence?

1. William Penn:

   All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

2. Spiro Agnew:

   A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

3. Yong Ho:

   He is truly impudent enough to utter such thoughtless words which only leave us disappointed and skeptical as to whether we can solve any problem with such a guy.

4. Charles Horton Cooley:

   Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

5. Jean-Francois Rameau:

   The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

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