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IMPROVIDENTLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does improvidently mean?
• IMPROVIDENTLY (adverb)
The adverb IMPROVIDENTLY has 1 sense:
1. in an improvident manner
Familiarity information: IMPROVIDENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an improvident manner
Context example:
he lived improvidently for the moment
Antonym:
providently (in a provident manner)
Pertainym:
improvident (not provident; not providing for the future)
Context examples
He was gone immediately; and Emma soon saw him standing before Miss Fairfax, and talking to her; but as to its effect on the young lady, as he had improvidently placed himself exactly between them, exactly in front of Miss Fairfax, she could absolutely distinguish nothing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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