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improvided

improvided adjective: unforeseen.

Adjective

improvided (comparative more improvided, superlative most improvided)

  1. Unforeseen.
    • she suborned hath
      This craftie messenger with letters vaine,
      To worke new woe and improuided scath […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of improvided

comparativemore improvided
superlativemost improvided

Origin of improvided

From im- + provided.

Questions about improvided

What does improvided mean?
Improvided means unforeseen.
What part of speech is improvided?
Improvided is an adjective.

Words near improvided in the dictionary

  1. improves on
  2. improves the occasion
  3. improves upon
  4. improvest
  5. improveth
  6. improvided
  7. improvidence
  8. improvidences
  9. improvident
  10. improvidentially
  11. improvidently

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