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improvident
[ im-prov-i-duhnt ]
adjective
- not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
Synonyms: heedless, imprudent, careless, thoughtless
Antonyms: prudent
- neglecting to provide for future needs.
Synonyms: unthrifty, prodigal, wasteful, thriftless, shiftless
Antonyms: economical
improvident
/ ɪmˈprɒvɪdənt /
adjective
- not provident; thriftless, imprudent, or prodigal
- heedless or incautious; rash
Derived Forms
- imˈprovidently, adverb
- imˈprovidence, noun
Other Words From
- im·provi·dence noun
- im·provi·dent·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of improvident1
Example Sentences
Government nurtured these behemoths by weaving an improvident safety net, and by practicing crony capitalism.
The old elite worried that the masses were too improvident and seditious.
Then as the sober days of manhood came, and Landy witnessed the finish of the improvident and foolish, he began to save and skimp.
How ridiculously improvident it was of the curate and Emily Gibson to fall in love with one another, wisdom could testify.
He is dutiful to his father, the improvident, though ambitious Charles Mari de Buonaparte.
In those days the people were poor and improvident, and a single failure in their crops left them in a sorry condition.
She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,—that last lapse of the improvident.
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