Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 19, 2006
improvident \im-PROV-uh-duhnt; -dent\, adjective:
Lacking foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent or thoughtless.
Elizabeth's husband . . . had been a reckless, improvident man, who left many debts behind him when he died suddenly of a consumption in September 1704. -- David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life
Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado. -- Elizabeth Hardwick, Sight-Readings: American Fictions He called the decision "an exercise in raw judicial power" that was "improvident and extravagant." -- Linda Greenhouse, "White Announces He'll Step Down From High Court", New York Times, March 20, 1993
Improvident derives from Latin improvidens, improvident-, from im- (for in-), "not" + providens, provident-, present participle of providere, "to see beforehand, to provide for," from pro-, "before, forward" + videre, "to see."
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People in Providence, RI, tend to be very improvident. This comment shows a lot of improvidence, since I didn't think any further than the first sentence before I started typing and now I'm stuck without a really witty thing to say. Uhm... Ta daaa!
Elizabeth's husband and Lily should probably get together.
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