Antonyms for impulse
ˈɪm pʌlsim·pulse

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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.

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

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

   Preposition:
   He had an insatiable appetite for the marvellous.

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1. impulse

   Antonyms:
   rebuff, repulse, premeditation, deliberation

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

Matched Categories

1. • Desire
   • Drive
   • Electrical Discharge
   • Electronics
   • Force
   • Motive
   • Wave

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 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

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1. impulsenoun

   Synonyms:
   motive, incentive, impulsion, impetus

How to use impulse in a sentence?

1. Marquis de Sade:

   Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

2. Helen Keller:

   One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

3. Gennadiy Goldberg:

   There is little in the current report to signal a nefarious acceleration in the deflationary impulse.

4. Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine:

   Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.

5. Martin Lewis:

   Making something more difficult to do slows people down, and gives time to consider, this is important when you're dealing with impulse control.

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