impulse
impulse is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
- noun. The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
- noun. The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
- noun. A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.
- transitive verb. To impel; to incite.
- noun. the act of applying force suddenly
"the impulse knocked him over"
- noun. an impelling force or strength
"the car's momentum carried it off the road"
- noun. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
"they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"
- noun. (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"
- noun. a sudden desire
"he bought it on an impulse"
- noun. an instinctive motive
"profound religious impulses"
Synonyms
impetus, impulsion, momentum, pulsation, pulse, pulsing, caprice, whim, urge
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for IMPULSE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.