impulsive
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(s) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
- an impulsive gesture of affection
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(s) without forethought
- letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted
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(s) having the power of driving or impelling
- a driving personal ambition
- the driving force was his innate enthusiasm
- an impulsive force
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(s) 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
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(s) 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)