Word Meanings - IMPROVIDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man. Improvident soldires! had your watch been good, This sudden mischief never could have fallen. Shak. Syn.

Additional info about word: IMPROVIDENT

Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man. Improvident soldires! had your watch been good, This sudden mischief never could have fallen. Shak. Syn. -- Inconsiderable; negligent; careless; shiftless; prodigal; wasteful.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPROVIDENT)

• Prodigal
• Lavish
• profuse
• extravagant
• reckless
• wasteful
• squandering
• improvident
• Reckless
• Careless
• heedless
• incautious
• foolhardy
• thoughtless
• rash
• overventuresome
• regardless
• inconsiderate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPROVIDENT)

• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare

Related words: (words related to IMPROVIDENT)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• PRODIGALLY
  In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• PROFUSENESS
  Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• HOARDING
  A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• IMPROVIDENTLY
  In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.