What does the word Impulsive mean?

Question

If i or someone said that im impulsive, what does that mean about me?

Answer 1

impulsive


adjective
Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste: brash, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, incautious, madcap, precipitant, precipitate, rash 1, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered. See careful

Answer 2

Impulsive Definition

Answer 3

1 : having the power of or actually driving or impelling
2 a : arising from an impulse b : prone to act on impulse
3 : acting momentarily

Answer 4

You act without thinking or considering consequences to your actions. Often putting your own self satisfaction ahead of your general well-being, drinking impulsively, (or compulsively) or trying to beat a train across the tracks would qualify as such.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus; "an impulsive gesture of affection"
without forethought; "letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted"
driving: having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force"
capricious: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
hotheaded: 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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Someone who has difficulty resisting impulses is said to be impulsive.

Answer 7

It means you have a tendancy to act without thinking things through. You react to the things going on around you.

Answer 8

# proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus; "an impulsive gesture of affection"
# without forethought; "letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted"
# driving: having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force"
# capricious: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
# hotheaded: 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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# Someone who has difficulty resisting impulses is said to be impulsive.
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Answer 9

It means that you do things on the spur of the moment, without thinking about the consequences.

Answer 10

It means to be act in the moment. Spontaneous, could even be like reckless or rash or hasty.