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PROVIDENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does providential mean? 

PROVIDENTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective PROVIDENTIAL has 3 senses:

1. peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine interventionplay

2. relating to or characteristic of providenceplay

3. resulting from divine providenceplay

  Familiarity information: PROVIDENTIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROVIDENTIAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention

Synonyms:

heaven-sent; miraculous; providential

Context example:

a providential recovery

Similar:

fortunate (having unexpected good fortune)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of providence

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan

Pertainym:

providence (a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Resulting from divine providence

Synonyms:

divine; providential

Context example:

a providential visitation

Similar:

heavenly (of or belonging to heaven or god)

Derivation:

providence (the guardianship and control exercised by a deity)

providence (a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures)


 Context examples 


How providential that he had presence of mind to think of the water-jug!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“What a providential thing that this young man should press his right thumb against the wall in taking his hat from the peg! Such a very natural action, too, if you come to think of it.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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