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Improvident

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Not providing for the future; thriftless.

adj. Rash; incautious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. failing to provide for the future; reckless

adj. incautious; prone to rashness

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not provident; wanting foresight; neglecting to provide for future needs or exigencies; unthrifty.

Synonyms Imprudent, shiftless, careless, prodigal. See wisdom.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not given careful consideration

adj. not provident; not providing for the future

Word Usage

"I do not like being asked to pay large sums of money for windfalls to the improvident, but given the choice between improvident families losing their homes and stock and bondholders in improvident banks, I know whose windfall I’d choose to hand my a share of my income to."

Equivalent

imprudent short unforesightful unforethoughtful myopic thriftless shortsighted

Antonym

miser provident

Form

improvidence improvidently

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

prodigal careless wasteful negligent shiftless inconsiderable thoughtless spendthrift

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

unthrifty shiftless negligent thriftless wasteful imprudent needy prodigal pleasure-loving thoughtless