(of people or their behaviour )人或行爲 acting suddenly without thinking carefully about what might happen because of what you are doing synonym impetuous, rash憑沖動行事的;易沖動的 an impulsive decision/gesture 沖動的決定/姿態 You're so impulsive! 你太沖動了! He has an impulsive nature. 他生性沖動。 He told me not to be impulsive but to think it over. 他告訴我不要憑沖動行事,而是要仔細考慮一下。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryImpulsive is used with these nouns:- act
- behaviour
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘tending to impel’): from French impulsif, -ive or late Latin impulsivus, from Latin impuls- ‘driven onwards’, from impellere, from in- ‘towards’ + pellere ‘to drive’. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.