Improvident
[ɪm'prɒvɪd(ə)nt] or [ɪm'prɑvədənt]
Definition
(a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
Edited by Darrell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Shiftless, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.
Checker: Ronnie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imprudent, i_wasteful, prodigal, reckless, careless, thoughtless, shiftless
ANT:Prudent, careful, saving, economical, provident,[See COMMON]
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Definition
adj. not provident or prudent: wanting foresight: thoughtless.—adj. Improvide′ (Spens.) not provided against.—n. Improv′idence.—adv. Improv′idently.
Editor: Rosanne
Examples
- But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Improvident and self-indulgent were his words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This complaint, however, of the scarcity of money, is not always confined to improvident spendthrifts. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I thought you was poor, my improvident friend! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Because they are improvident,' said Mrs. Sparsit. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I do not deny that he is improvident. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There, said she--there is a providence for the improvident. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Editor: Rosanne