impudentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪmpjʊdənt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɪmpjədn̩t/
• ハイフネーション: im‧pu‧dent

形容詞

impudent (comparative more impudent or (proscribed) impudenter, superlative most impudent or (proscribed) impudentest)

1. Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.

   Synonyms: bold, brazen-faced, insolent; see also Thesaurus:cheeky

   The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 79, column 2:

     Sir Iohn, ſir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cauſe,the falſe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come with ſuch (more then impudent) ſawcines from you, can thruſt me from a leuell conſideration, […]

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Paul’s Further Progress, Growth, and Character”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 75:

     “Wickam,” retorted Mrs. Pipchin, coloring, “is a wicked, impudent, bold-faced hussy.”

   • 1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 480:

     And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'

2. (obsolete) Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 252, column 2:

     Dian. Good my Lord,
     Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do’s thinke
     He had not my virginity.
     Kin. What ſaift thou to her?
     Ber. She’s impudent my Lord,
     And was a common gameſter to the Campe.
     Dia. He do’s me wrong my Lord: If I were ſo,
     He might haue bought me at a common price.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:13–15:

     So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 19:2:

     Wine and women will make men of vnderstanding to fall away, and he that cleaueth to harlots will become impudent.

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Further reading

• “impudent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “impudent (adj.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “impudent, a. (n.)”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impudent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

形容詞

impudent

1. shameless, immodest

参照

• “impudent, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.