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Lacking foresight - spendthrift
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improvident
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from im- "not" + provident . It retains a stronger connection with the "provide" aspect of Latin providere . Related: Improvidently .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ These immediate-return hunter-gatherers never suffer anxiety about the future of food supplies and are characterized by improvident , generous, happy-go-lucky personalities.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not provident; not providing for the future [ant: provident ] not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt" [syn: ill-considered , ill-judged , shortsighted ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 failing to provide for the future; reckless 2 incautious; prone to rashness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of improvident.
In spite of court patronage Holbein did not die a rich man, and there is an impression that he was recklessly improvident in his habits.
The spreading of forty-three divisions, or half the mobile French army, from Longwy to the Swiss frontier, the whole of which was either defended by the Maginot Line forts or by the broad, swift-flowing Rhine, with its own fortress system behind it, was an improvident disposition.
The improvident expenditure of the royal patrimony, the granting the crown land or pensions to unworthy persons, is a frequent ground of complaint.
Most children instinctively knew when to push their luck and only the greedy or dentally improvident called out the Tooth Fairy around Hogswatch.
Over the whole extent of the South Seas, from one tropic to another, we find traces of a bygone state of over-population, when the resources of even a tropical soil were taxed, and even the improvident Polynesian trembled for the future.
His parents, John and Elizabeth, were middle class, genteel, but spectacularly improvident: his father, though respectably employed by the Navy Pay Office, was frequently in debt.