Textual thesaurus for "impulsive"

(adj) impetuous, hotheaded, brainish, tearaway, madcap

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)

(adj) capricious, whimsical

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

(adj) driving

having the power of driving or impelling

a driving personal ambition; the driving force was his innate enthusiasm; an impulsive force

(adj) unprompted

proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

an impulsive gesture of affection