Improvidence

Definition: Improvidence

Improvidence

Noun

1. A lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources.

Date "improvidence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Improvidence \Im*prov"i*dence\, noun. [Latin expression improvidentia; Old French improvidence. Compare to Imprudence.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Improvidence

Synonym: shortsightedness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: providence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Neglect	Noun: neglect; carelessness; Adjective: trifling; Verb: negligence; omission, oversight, laches, default; supineness; (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance; (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; (disorder), (dirt); improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness; (error).
Nonpreparation	Noun: non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation; inculture, inconcoction, improvidence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Improvidence

English words defined with "improvidence": Improvision ♦ spendthrift trust. (references)

Etymologies containing "improvidence": imprudence. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	This mode of aiding such works is also in its nature deceptive, and in many cases conducive to improvidence in the administration of the national funds.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Improvidence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Improvidence" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

Language		Translations for "improvidence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkujdesje (carelessness, disregard, ease, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laxity, lightness, negligence, thoughtlessness, unconcern, untidiness), mosparashikim. (various references)

Arabic		‏قصر نظر, ‏تبذير (dissipation, extravagance, frittering away, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, squandering, throwing away, wastefulness, wasting), ‏إسراف (exaggeration, excess, flamboyance, flamboyancy, intemperance, luxury, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, redundance, redundancy, squandering). (various references)

Bulgarian		разточителство (extravagance, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, superfluity), несъобразителност, нехайство (carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laches, negligence, remissness), непредвидливост. (various references)

Czech		neprozíravost. (various references)

Farsi		عاقبت نیندیشی , اسراف (Prodigality, Profusion, Squander), بی احتیاطی (Imprudence). (various references)

French		imprévoyance, prodigue (improvident), manque de prévoyance. (various references)

German		sorglosigkeit (carefreeness, carelessness, insouciance, jauntiness, nonchalance, unconcern), mangelnde vorsorge, leichtsinn (carelessness, flippancy, foolishness, frivolousness, giddiness, levity, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Greek		απροβλεψία, απρονοησία (imprudence). (various references)

Hebrew		אי �"ש�'ח�", אי ראית �"� ול�", בזבז� ות (extravagance, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness). (various references)

Hungarian		vigyázatlanság (recklessness), könnyelműség (folly, frivolity, giddiness, lightheadedness, trifling), előrelátás hiánya. (various references)

Italian		imprevidenza. (various references)

Manx		neufarrysthie (bad management), neuchairailys, lag-chairail. (various references)

Pig Latin		improvidenceay.(various references)

Portuguese		renovador (renovator, restorer). (various references)

Romanian		risipã (dissipation, extravagance, gash, prodigality, squander, squandering, waste), neprevedere, nechibzuinţã (imprudence, indiscretion, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Russian		непредусмотрительность (hindsight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesmotrenost (imprudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, recklessness, thoughtlessness), neopreznost, lakomislenost (flippancy, frivolity, levity, light-head). (various references)

Spanish		imprevisión (lack of foresight). (various references)

Swedish		slösaktighet (extravagance, lavishness, prodigality). (various references)

Turkish		israf (dissipation, extravagance, prodigality, profusion, squander, squandering, wastage, waste, wastefulness), ihtiyatsızlık (imprudence, rashness, unwariness), tutumsuzluk (sumptuousness, thriftlessness, wastefulness), tedbirsizlik (impolicy, imprudence, inconsiderateness, unwariness). (various references)

Ukranian		непередбачливість, марнотратність (prodigality, profligacy, profusion). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính không biết lo xa tính hoang to� ng xa phí. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "improvidence": improvidences. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "improvidence" (pronounced 'Im*prov"i*dence'): Accidence, Coincidence, Confidence, Decidence, Demicadence, Diffidence, Dissidence, imprudence, impudence, Incoincidence, Inevidence, Intercidence, jurisprudence, Noncoincidence, Nonresidence, Overconfidence, Prefidence, Presidence, Providence, Prudence, residence, self-confidence, Self-evidence, Unconfidence, Unprudence. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-v"
	-2 letters: providence.
	-3 letters: decemviri, epidermic, overmined, princedom, vermicide.
	-4 letters: coderive, codriven, compered, decemvir, divorcee, domineer, endermic, epidemic, epimeric, improved, invoiced, medicine, mediocre, overmine, overnice, pecorini, periodic, premedic, province, recoined, recopied, revoiced, viperine, vomerine.
	-5 letters: cervine, codeine, codrive, compeer, compend, compere, corvine, covered, crimped, crinoid, demirep, demonic, deprive, devoice, dimeric, dineric, diviner, divorce, dominie, dormice, eirenic, emeroid, empiric, encoder, encored, endemic, epeiric, epiderm, ericoid, ermined, evinced, impeder, imponed, improve, incomer, invoice, meropic, midiron, mincier, miniver, minored, moderne, oneiric, overmen, ovicide, percoid, pereion, pierced, pioneer, porcine, porcini, precode, predive, primine, proceed, promine, provide, removed, repined, revoice, ripened, ripieno, veinier, venomed, venomer, veridic, vidicon, viremic.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-v"
	+1 letter: improvidences.
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