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improvident a. 無遠見的,浪費的 無遠見的,浪費的 improvident adj 1: not provident; not providing for the future [ ant: { provident}] 2: not given careful consideration; " ill- considered actions often result in disaster"; " an ill- judged attempt" [ synonym: { ill- considered}, { ill- judged}, { improvident}, { shortsighted}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good, This sudden mischief never could have fallen. -- Shak. Syn: Inconsiderable; negligent; careless; shiftless; prodigal; wasteful. [ 1913 Webster] 46 Moby Thesaurus words for " improvident": brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, extravagant, feckless, grasshopper, happy- go- lucky, headlong, heedless, hubristic, impetuous, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, lavish, negligent, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, prodigal, profligate, profuse, rash, reckless, shiftless, short- sighted, spendthrift, temerarious, thoughtless, thriftless, unchary, uneconomical, unmindful, unproviding, unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, unwary, wasteful
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