What is the meaning of impulsive?

adjective

  • Proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus.
    • usage: "an impulsive gesture of affection"
  • Without forethought.
    • usage: "letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted"
  • Having the power of driving or impelling.
    • usage: "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force"
  • Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason.
    • usage: "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
  • Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation."a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)
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