provident
/ˈprɒvɪd(ə)nt
/adjective
Making or indicative of timely preparation for the future: she had learned to be provident...
- Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.’
- Belladonna, I do not think it is prudent or provident to turn down this offer.
- I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
Synonyms
prudent, far-sighted, judicious, shrewd, circumspect, forearmed, wise, sagacious, sensible, commonsensical, politic, cautious, careful, thrifty;
North American forehanded
rare forethoughtful
Derivatives
providently
- He proposed that, with respect to human evolutionary development, ‘what Nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly ‘- through natural selection - ‘man may do providently, quickly and kindly ‘- through controlled breeding.’
- Living providently, he reached ninety years of age.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin provident- 'foreseeing, attending to', from the verb providere (see provide).
Rhymes
- the Charioteer
- the chattering classes
- the cherry on the cake (or on top)
- the Cheviots
- the Chilterns
- the chop
- the Church Establishment
- the Cid
- the City
- the Coast
- the coast is clear
- thecodont
- the cold shoulder
- the Cold War
- the common good
- the Common Market
- the Commons
- the common touch
- the common weal
- the Commonwealth
- the Commonwealth of Nations
- the Confederacy
- the Conquest
- the Constitution
- the Consulate