Improvident

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Improvident \Im*prov"i*dent\, a. [Pref. im- not + provident: cf.
     L. improvidus. See {Provident}, and cf. {Imprudent}.]
     Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not
     foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent;
     thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,
           This sudden mischief never could have fallen. --Shak.
  
     Syn: Inconsiderable; negligent; careless; shiftless;
          prodigal; wasteful.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  improvident
       adj 1: not provident; not providing for the future [ant: {provident}]
       2: not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions
          often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt" [syn: {ill-considered},
           {ill-judged}, {shortsighted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "improvident":
     brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, extravagant, feckless,
     grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, headlong, heedless, hubristic,
     impetuous, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet,
     injudicious, insolent, lavish, negligent, overbold, overcareless,
     overconfident, oversure, overweening, prodigal, profligate,
     profuse, rash, reckless, shiftless, short-sighted, spendthrift,
     temerarious, thoughtless, thriftless, unchary, uneconomical,
     unmindful, unproviding, unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty,
     unwary, wasteful