Oh my word Imperious, Impervious Impetuous, Impetus

The imperious son listened imperviously to the advice of his father who aired unsought advices to the professionally-successful son. Imperious is an adjective referring to someone who is proud, overbearing, arrogant, domineering, expecting obedience; being bossy or authoritarian; the obsolete meaning of the word includes displaying imperial or regal attitude.

It is no wonder some imperious politicians expect complete obedience from their loyalists and followers and also to undertake tasks as assigned by them. She detested his imperious gaze as they sat to sip the hot coffee. He disliked her imperious command but yielded to it fearing more backlashes from her at home.

The variants of imperious are imperiously (adverb) and imperiousness (noun). Imperiousness means arrogance, haughtiness, being imperious and also refers to urgency. Parents often endure their children’s imperiousness as they become financially independent.

Unless the leader of the party displays imperiousness at times, he or she cannot quell dissidence. Bollywood is also home to imperious directors and actors for they have inherited legacy of studios and name from their forebears (ancestors).Can you tolerate imperious behavior?

Impervious is an adjective referring to someone not affected by something or someone; unaffected, not influenced by external things. A disciple asked the guru: ‘Swami, do I’ve to be impervious to the fears of life like death, divorce, loss and longing and livelihood issues?’

You cannot be impervious to arguments and counter-arguments in a debate, and you should put forth your point in a persuasive manner by highlighting or by presenting irrefutable facts. Impervious means not allowing water, liquid, gas and others from passing through something; impenetrable, immune to damage.

Raincoats are popular in rainy areas because they are impervious to rain thus shielding the body from soaking. Often elders advice the youngsters to be impervious to comments on social media websites because geeks could say anything on digital platforms without thinking much, or being unmindful of others’ feelings.

Impetuous is an adjective meaning doing something without thought; being impulsive, making arbitrary decisions, acting in forceful manner; acting hastily or rashly, hothead. Its grammatical variants are impetuously, impetuousness, and impetuosity. It is derived from the Old French word ‘impetueus’.

In IPL’s t20 matches, the batsmen raise the bat impetuously! Impetus is a noun. Impetus indicates to something that encourages a process to unfold or develop more quickly, and for the betterment. If only we see moments of impetuses from impervious blood-brothers lot of litigation can be precluded between countries and between imperious siblings!

Kovuuri G Reddy