Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Improvident.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Improvident.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
improvident
Etymologies
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un- + provident
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Examples
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"No. You go'n smoke a corner o 'the _Pet-it Journal_, an' good enough for you, unprovident sacriligeous blighters, you -- givin 'away your own good Testaments."
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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So unprovident that I am afraid she is angry with me for insisting that she should put her capital of passion to good uses. "
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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