imprudent

From Middle French imprudent, from Latin imprudens (“not foreseeing, ignorant”), prefix im-, not + prudens (“foreseeing, skilled, judicious”)

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹudənt/

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imprudent (comparative more imprudent, superlative most imprudent)

1. Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
   • 1711, John Strype, The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, volume 1.

     Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.

   • 1853, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, chapter 3, in Phantom Fortune‎:

     ‘It was a most 'imprudent thing to go up Helvellyn in such weather,’ said Fräulein Müller, shaking her head gloomily as she ate her fish.

   • 1864, Jules Verne, chapter 3, in Journey to the Interior of the Earth‎:

     My uncle, falling back into his absorbing contemplations, had already forgotten my imprudent words. I merely say imprudent, for the great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for love affairs, and happily the grand business of the document gained me the victory.

• indiscreet, injudicious, incautious, ill-advised, unwise, heedless, careless, rash, negligent

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pʁy.dɑ̃/

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imprudent (feminine singular imprudente, masculine plural imprudents, feminine plural imprudentes)

1. imprudent, rash

• imprudence

• “imprudent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).