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unprovident

unprovident adjective: lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident.

Adjective

unprovident (comparative more unprovident, superlative most unprovident)

  1. (obsolete) lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident
    • For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
      Who for thyself art so unprovident1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 10”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) lacking thrift.

Forms of unprovident

comparativemore unprovident
superlativemost unprovident

Origin of unprovident

From un- + provident.

Words formed from unprovident

Questions about unprovident

What does unprovident mean?
Unprovident means lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident.
What part of speech is unprovident?
Unprovident is an adjective.

Words near unprovident in the dictionary

  1. unprovide
  2. unprovided
  3. unprovidedly
  4. unprovidedness
  5. unprovidenced
  6. unprovident
  7. unprovidential
  8. unprovidentially
  9. unprovidently
  10. unprovides
  11. unproviding

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