单词 | improvidence |
释义 | improvidence (once / 13371 pages) n WORD FAMILY improvidence: improvidences+/improvident: improvidence, improvidently/provide: provided, provident, provider, provides, providing, provision/providence: providences, providential/provident: improvident, providence, providently/providential: providentially/provider: providers/provision: provisional, provisionary, provisioned, provisioner, provisioning, provisions/provisional: provisionally/provisioner: provisioners USAGE EXAMPLESIt strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting...(2001) Early marriages the most conspicuous proofs of Irish improvidence, 144. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, History of European Morals From Aug...(2012) The Indians, with their ordinary recklessness and improvidence, had neglected even to place a guard within the palisades. Parkman, Francis, The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the I...(2012) n a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper shortsightedness providence the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources extravagance, prodigality, profligacy the trait of spending extravagantly thriftlessness, waste, wastefulnessthe trait of wasting resources imprudence a lack of caution in practical affairs |
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