impulsive

  • (s) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
    • an impulsive gesture of affection
    unprompted,
  • (s) without forethought
    • letting him borrow her car was an impulsive act that she immediately regretted
  • (s) having the power of driving or impelling
    • a driving personal ambition
    • the driving force was his innate enthusiasm
    • an impulsive force
    driving,
  • (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
    whimsical, capricious,
  • (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)
    brainish, impetuous, madcap, tearaway, hotheaded,

Synonyms

unprompted driving whimsical capricious brainish impetuous madcap tearaway hotheaded

Words of close approximity

impulsion
impulsively impulsiveness