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UK
/ɪmpɹˈɒvɪdənt/
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ADJECTIVE
- not provident; not providing for the future
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not given careful consideration
an ill-judged attempt
ill-considered actions often result in disaster
How To Use improvident In A Sentence
- Now that our government has implicated us in this regrettable, improvident and illegal war - we are obliged to make a substantial commitment to reconstruction.
- It bails out the improvident and sticks those who made prudent decisions with the bill. Notable & Quotable
- After all, the wild Indians could not be justly termed improvident, when their manner of life is taken into consideration. Indian Boyhood
- Where a nation has been ancestorially bound by foolish and improvident treaties, ample notice must be given of their termination. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
- I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural , concern!
- 'improvident' (that was the favourite word) down the Yard. Little Dorrit
- This well illustrates that even the best regulated national fisheries are not immune to improvident policies motivated by short-term social and political concerns.
- Hobbling creditors means that interest rates rise permanently, to the sober and honest as well as the improvident; but why should the former be taxed to subsidize the latter?
- She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature. PAINT THE WIND
- Theodore was born at Port Adelaide into the large and improvident family of a Romanian father and English - Irish mother.