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improvident

[ im-prov-i-duhnt ]

adjective

  1. not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.

    Synonyms: heedless, imprudent, careless, thoughtless

    Antonyms: prudent

  2. neglecting to provide for future needs.

    Synonyms: unthrifty, prodigal, wasteful, thriftless, shiftless

    Antonyms: economical



improvident

/ ɪmˈprɒvɪdənt /

adjective

  1. not provident; thriftless, imprudent, or prodigal
  2. heedless or incautious; rash
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • imˈprovidently, adverb
  • imˈprovidence, noun
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Other Words From

  • im·provi·dence noun
  • im·provi·dent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of improvident1

First recorded in 1505–15; im- 2 + provident
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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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