Improvident
[ɪm'prɒvɪd(ə)nt] or [ɪm'prɑvədənt]
解释:
(a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
达雷尔手打
同义词及近义词：
a. Shiftless, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.
校对:罗尼
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Imprudent, i_wasteful, prodigal, reckless, careless, thoughtless, shiftless
ANT:Prudent, careful, saving, economical, provident,[See COMMON]
亨廷顿编辑
解释:
adj. not provident or prudent: wanting foresight: thoughtless.—adj. Improvide′ (Spens.) not provided against.—n. Improv′idence.—adv. Improv′idently.
校对:罗赞
例句:
- But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- As to an individual, ma'am,' said Bitzer, dropping his voice and drawing nearer, 'he is as improvident as any of the people in this town. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Improvident and self-indulgent were his words. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- This complaint, however, of the scarcity of money, is not always confined to improvident spendthrifts. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I thought you was poor, my improvident friend! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Because they are improvident,' said Mrs. Sparsit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I do not deny that he is improvident. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- There, said she--there is a providence for the improvident. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
校对:罗赞