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Injudicious definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INJUDI'CIOUS, a. [in and judicious.] Not judicious; void of judgment; acting without judgment; unwise; as an injudicious person.
1. Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as an injudicious measure.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1649 not judicious ; indiscreet, unwise <injudicious outbursts> • injudiciously adverb • injudiciousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. unwise; ill-judged. Derivatives: injudiciously adv. injudiciousness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Injudicious In`ju*di"cious, a. [Pref. in- not + judicious; cf. F. injudicieux.] 1. Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser. An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. --A. Murphy. 2. Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as, an injudicious measure. Syn: Indiscreet; inconsiderate; undiscerning; incautious; unwise; rash; hasty; imprudent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or something that they have done as injudicious, you are critical of them because they have shown very poor judgment. (FORMAL) He blamed injudicious comments by bankers for last week's devaluation. = ill-advised, unwise ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Unwise, indiscreet, imprudent, inconsiderate, foolish, rash, incautious, hasty, ill-judged, ill-advised.

Moby Thesaurus

brash, brazen, brazenfaced, hubristic, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, inadvisable, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inexpedient, insensate, insolent, irrational, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, rash, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsound, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwary, unwise, witless