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Definition: Providential |
ProvidentialAdjective1. Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery". 2. Relating to or characteristic of providence; "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen. 3. Resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "providential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Etymology: Providential \Prov`i*den"tial\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression providentiel.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: ProvidentialSynonyms: divine (adj), heaven-sent (adj), miraculous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Occasion | Providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical; suitable; obiter dicta. |
Prosperity | Auspicious, propitious, providential. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Providential |
| English words defined with "providential": divine ♦ heaven-sent ♦ miraculous ♦ providentially ♦ Ways of God. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Numerous as are the providential blessings which demand our grateful acknowledgments, the abundance with which another year has again rewarded the industry of the husbandman is too important to escape recollection. |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | That it was a wise, just, and providential act, fraught with good for all concerned, is not generally conceded throughout the country. |
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| "Providential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Providential" is used about 49 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Providential Holdings, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
providential | 6 |
bancorp providential | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "providential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | providencial, i shumëpritur (long awaited), fatlum (chancy, fortunate, lucky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | من لدن العناية الإلهية, محظوظ (fortuitous, fortunate, granted, happy, lucky, lucrative, succeeded), متعلق بالعناية الإلهية, سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, blithe, carefree, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, high, in high spirits, joyful, joyous, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, thankful, unstressed, upbeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | щастлив (auspicious, blessed, favored, favoured, fortunate, glad, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, palmy, saturnian, well), от бога, от провидението, навременен (apropos, merciful, not unwelcome, opportune, prompt, seasonable, timely, welcome, well timed, well-judged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | příhodný (appropriate, handy, opportune, timely), zázraèný (magical, miraculous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | providentiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glücklich (blessed, by luck, felicitous, felicitously, fortunate, golden, happily, happy, lucky, palmy, prosperous, serendipitous, through luck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκ θείασ πρόνοιασ, θεόσταλτοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בר מזל (fortunate, lucky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerencsés (apt, benign, favored, favoured, felicitous, fortunate, godspeed, gracious, happy, lucky, lucky to get off with a whole skin, neat, to be in luck, to click, well), gondviselésszerû. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | provvidenziale (forehanded, forehandedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 天為 (natural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | て"い (change, dislocation, divine will, heavenly garment, imperial authority, imperial majesty, imperial throne, metastasis, natural, providence, rearrangement, transference, transposition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ard-chiarailagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovidentialpray oportuno (advisable, convenient, felicitous, opportune, pat, propitious, seasonable, timely, well-timed), feliz (blissful, carefree, felicitous, fortunate, gay, glad, gladsome, happy, joyous, lucky, merry, palmy, prosperous, successful). (various references) providenţial. (various references) провиденциальный. (various references) predostrožan (cautious, precautionary, provident, vigilant). (various references) providencial. (various references) lyckosam (fortunate, lucky). (various references) kısmetli, hızır gibi yetişen, şanslı (auspicious, fortunate, jammy, lucky, prosperous, well off), allah'tan olan (heaven-sent). (various references) щасливий (blessed, blithe, chancy, felicitous, fortunate, golden, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, overjoyed, palmy, thrifty), чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), обумовлений (bespoke, conditional, conditioned, conventional, given, modal). (various references) do mệnh trời may mắn, do ý trời, có trời phù hộ. (various references) rhagluniaethol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "providential": providentially. (additional references) | |
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"Providential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Previdencia, Providenciae, providentia, providentialist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "providential" (pronounced prÄ'vude"nkhul) |
| 7 | -u d e" n kh u l | credential, presidential, residential. |
| 6 | -d e" n kh u l | prudential. |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, preferential, reverential, sequential, tangential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: deprivation. | |
-2 letters: depilation, derivation, pavilioned. | |
-3 letters: davenport, deviation, editorial, epilation, interlaid, inviolate, overplaid, overplant, perdition, plaintive, planetoid, predation, privation, provident, reptilian, vitrioled. | |
-4 letters: adoptive, antipode, antipole, anviltop, arointed, atropine, daintier, delation, deprival, deviator, dilation, dilative, dioptral, dipteral, dipteran, dipteron, divalent, donative, dovetail, ideation, idolater, inertial, interlap, interval, intrepid, iodinate, livetrap, ordinate, oriental, overlaid, overlain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
+2 letters: providentially. | |
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