Definition of Improvident. Meaning of Improvident. Synonyms of Improvident

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Definition of Improvident

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

Meaning of Improvident from wikipedia

- A grant of appellate review is dismissed as improvidently granted (DIG) when a court with discretionary appellate jurisdiction later decides that it should...
- Schlicke 1999, p. 158. Callow 2009, p. 13 Ackroyd 1990, p. 76:'recklessly improvident'. Pope-Hennessy 1945, p. 11. Forster 2006, p. 27. Ackroyd 1990, p. 76...
- ___ (2024), the Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted. The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted....
- British royal family regain the freehold under George III. When the improvident Goring defaulted on his rents, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington was...
- Amicus curiae brief Certiorari Cert. before judgment Cert. dismissed as improvidently granted Grant, vacate, remand Shadow docket In-chambers opinion Current...
- humiliated, and vows revenge. Bathsheba discovers that her new husband is an improvident gambler with little interest in farming. She also begins to suspect he...
- affair with President William Howard Taft and she refers to him as an "improvident lackwit". Furthermore, because she is so old, the only things she can...
- authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution...
- is found in the animal kingdom. Hardin said that if the children of improvident parents starved to death, if overbreeding was its own punishment, then...
- as living in genteel penury, but the Alcott family, dependent on an improvident, impractical father, suffered real poverty and occasional hunger. In...