If someone is impulsive, it means that they act on instinct, without thinking decisions through. If you worked for an entire year to save money for a car and then suddenly decided to spend it all on an outfit instead, that would be an impulsive purchase.
Impulses are short, quick feelings, and if someone is in the habit of acting on them, they're impulsive. When stores stock chocolate at the checkout line, they are hoping you will impulsively decide to buy it. When you call the person you have a crush on after promising yourself all day to maintain an air of dignified reserve, that's impulsive behavior. We might also call impulsive behavior whimsical or capricious.
A person who often decides that he or she is going to know more (about whatever you happen to be talking about) than you know.
I was talking to Anna about my boyfriend the other day, and she kept correcting me about everything I said about him. She's never even met him! Ugh, she ALWAYS does that.
I know, right? She's always such an impulsive expert!
the inherited instinct to nod your head at people; if you know them or not, and it takes no thought process for initiation or to respond. mostly like predominate in caucasian males, but stretches every ethnic back round in the united states. IRN for short. it's a non verbal way to say i see you there, or to recognize what is going on in a particularenvironment.
bicyclist and driver give a impulsive recognition nod at one another as to agree not to collide with one another.
male friend see's another male friend having a conversation with a female and gives the impulsive recognition nod as to non verbally communicate a variety of things such as; leave me alone, find your own ride home tonight, yes am trying to have sex with this individual, good luck etc.
you catch a person looking at you and that individual gives a impulsive recognition nod, and nod back but don't know why. this prevents any unnecessary altercation due to the IRN