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Synonyms for impulse
ˈɪm pʌlsim·pulse

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 3 votes

  1. impulse

    Appetite is used only of the demands of the physical system, unless otherwise expressly stated, as when we say an appetite for knowledge; passion includes all excitable impulses of our nature, as anger, fear, love, hatred, etc. Appetite is thus more animal than passion; and when we speak of passions and appetites as conjoined or contrasted, we think of the appetites as wholly physical and of the passions as, in part at least, mental or spiritual. We say an appetite for food, a passion for fame. Compare DESIRE.

    Compare ANTIPATHY.

    Synonyms:
    appetency, appetite, craving, desire, disposition, inclination, liking, longing, lust, passion, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, thirst, zest

    Antonyms:
    antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repugnance, repulsion

    Preposition:
    He had an insatiable appetite for the marvellous.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. impulse

    Synonyms:
    incentive, push, incitement, force, influence, instigation, feeling, sudden thought, motive

    Antonyms:
    rebuff, repulse, premeditation, deliberation

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. urge, impulsenoun

    an instinctive motive

    "profound religious impulses"

    Synonyms:
    pulsing, whim, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, impulsion, caprice, pulse, neural impulse, pulsation, itch

  2. caprice, impulse, whimnoun

    a sudden desire

    "he bought it on an impulse"

    Synonyms:
    pulsing, whim, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, impulsion, caprice, pulse, notion, neural impulse, whimsey, pulsation, whimsy

  3. nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulsenoun

    the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber

    "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"

    Synonyms:
    pulsing, momentum, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, whim, impulsion, caprice, pulse, neural impulse, pulsation, urge

  4. pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulsenoun

    (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

    "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"

    Synonyms:
    impulsion, pulse, beat, caprice, whim, momentum, nervous impulse, neural impulse, pulsation, heart rate, pulsing, heartbeat, nerve impulse, impetus, pulse rate, urge

  5. impulse, impulsion, impetusnoun

    the act of applying force suddenly

    "the impulse knocked him over"

    Synonyms:
    pulsing, whim, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, drift, impulsion, caprice, pulse, neural impulse, pulsation

  6. momentum, impulsenoun

    an impelling force or strength

    "the car's momentum carried it off the road"

    Synonyms:
    pulsing, whim, nerve impulse, nervous impulse, impetus, momentum, urge, impulsion, caprice, pulse, neural impulse, pulsation

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. impulsenoun

    Synonyms:
    thrust, push, impelling force

  2. impulsenoun

    Synonyms:
    passion, instinct, sudden thought

  3. impulsenoun

    Synonyms:
    incitement, instigation, motive, influence

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. impulsenoun

    Synonyms:
    motive, incentive, impulsion, impetus

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "impulse":

    impetus, momentum, pulse, boost, whim, stimulus, incentive

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How to use impulse in a sentence?

  1. Alexandra Brodsky:

    I found in my accounts that men try to justify this by saying it’s their right to spread their seed and that it’s a natural impulse for them.

  2. Vladimir Putin:

    This is not very good, but it could also possibly play into our hands, the existing circumstances have an evident plus too: Russia has gained a new impulse towards scientific and technological development.

  3. Christian Stocker:

    We need a strong earnings momentum to justify the current lofty valuations and push share prices further higher, but that's not happening, i don't see a lasting positive impulse coming from the reporting season and see only a marginal increase in equities in the remaining weeks of the year.

  4. Donald Trump:

    You don't get to where he is in business, you don't have a 35 year track record of success and build the kind of the companies that he's built, you know, by doing it by yourself on impulse thought, right? You bring in the best person for a given job.

  5. Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29:

    But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!


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