Prudent
['pruːd(ə)nt] or ['prʊdnt]
Definition
(adj.) careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; 'a prudent manager'; 'prudent rulers'; 'prudent hesitation'; 'more prudent to hide than to fight' .
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Definition
(a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
(a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Discreet, cautious, careful, circumspect, wary, considerate, judicious, provident, prudential.[2]. Frugal, economical.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wise, wary, cautious, circumspect, discreet, careful, judicious
ANT:Foolish, unwary, incautious, uncircumspect, indiscreet, rash, imprudent, silly,reckless, audacious
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Definition
adj. cautious and wise in conduct: careful: discreet: dictated by forethought: frugal.—n. Pru′dence quality of being prudent: wisdom applied to practice: attention to self-interest: caution.—adj. Pruden′tial using or practising prudence.—n. a matter for prudence (generally pl.).—n. Prudential′ity.—advs. Pruden′tially; Pru′dently.
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Examples
- Consider Mr. Collins's respectability, and Charlotte's steady, prudent character. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Why, Tom, you must know I know the moSt. O, Mas'r, haven't you jest read how he hides from the wise and prudent, and reveals unto babes? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I steeled myself against the delusion; the room itself was vacant: it was only prudent, I repeated to myself, to examine the rest of the house. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Quite prudent, and take them by all means, urged the host. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- After a while and when it might be prudent, if you should want to slip Tom, Jack, or Richard on board a foreign packet-boat, there he is--ready. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He said he should try, if 't was any way prudent, said the man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They carry themselves high, and as prudent men; and though they are fools, yet would seem to be teachers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I will be cool, persevering, and prudent. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- How am I to be prudent? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He advanced as near as he considered prudent, and kept on the opposite side of the street, the better to observe her motions. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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