Word Meanings - PROVIDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. And of our good and of our dignity,

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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. And of our good and of our dignity, How provident he is. Milton. Syn. -- Forecasting; cautious; careful; prudent; frugal; economical.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROVIDENT)

• Frugal
• Sparing
• economical
• parsimonious
• abstinent
• abstemious
• temperate
• saving
• thrifty
• provident
• Politic
• Prudent
• wise
• sagacious
• diplomatic
• judicious
• cunning
• wary
• well devised
• discreet
• Thoughtful
• Careful
• contemplative
• considerate
• anxious
• pensive
• cogitative
• reflective
• regardful
• mindful
• heedful
• diligent

Related words: (words related to PROVIDENT)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• DIPLOMATIC
  A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• CONTEMPLATIVE
  1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. 2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray.
• SAVE
  Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See Except.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• DEVISABLE
  1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• POLITICLY
  In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• 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
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.