Provident
['prɒvɪd(ə)nt] or ['prɑvɪdənt]
Definition
(adj.) providing carefully for the future; 'wild squirrels are provident'; 'a provident father plans for his children's education' .
(adj.) careful in regard to your own interests; 'the prudent use and development of resources'; 'wild squirrels are provident' .
Editor: Moore--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future.
Editor: Rhoda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Careful (for the future), prudent, discreet, cautious, forecasting, frugal, economical.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Forecasting, foreseeing, cautious, considerate
ANT:Improvident, reckless, careless, inconsiderate
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Examples
- From every provident point of view his mother was so undoubtedly right, that he was not without a sickness of heart in finding he could shake her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Conservation had the virtue of arising out of a provident statesmanship, but its problems were largely technical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Really, you are quite provident. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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