unprovident

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adjective

lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectiveunprovident (comparative more unprovident, superlative most unprovident)

comparative more unprovident · superlative most unprovident

  1. obsoletelacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident

    For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident

    1609, 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. obsoletelacking thrift.

Origin

From un- + provident.

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APA

unprovident. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprovident

MLA

“unprovident.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprovident. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unprovident,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprovident.

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