impertinent

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/    美 /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/|/ɪmˈpɝt.nənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An impertinent individual.
    — Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.
形容词 adj.
  1. Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
    — “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
  2. Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless. archaic
    — Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness

词形变化

more impertinent comparative most impertinent superlative impertinents plural

词汇关系

衍生词
impertinently impertinentness unimpertinent
相关词
impudent

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
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