impertinent, officious, meddlesome, intrusive, obtrusive mean given to thrusting oneself into the affairs of others. impertinent implies exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest or curiosity or in offering advice. officious implies the offering of services or attentions that are unwelcome or annoying.

IMPERTINENT definition: 1. rude and not showing respect, especially towards someone older or in a higher position than you…. Learn more.

Some common synonyms of impertinent are intrusive, meddlesome, obtrusive, and officious. While all these words mean "given to thrusting oneself into the affairs of others," impertinent implies exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest or curiosity or in offering advice.

If someone's rude without being openly nasty, like a kid in the back row of class quietly heckling his teacher, you can call him impertinent.

rude and not showing respect for somebody who is older or more important synonym impolite. Would it be impertinent to ask why you're leaving? She found the question highly impertinent. Some people said he had been disrespectful to the president in his last speech. Some people think it is impolite to ask someone’s age.

impertinent, from its primary meaning of not pertinent and hence inappropriate or out of place, has come to imply an unseemly intrusion into the affairs of others; it may also refer to a presumptuous rudeness toward persons entitled to respect: impertinent questions; an impertinent interruption.

If someone talks or behaves in a rather impolite and disrespectful way, you can say that they are being impertinent.