improvident

Questions about improvident

What does improvident mean?

improvident means "not provident; not providing for the future". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in improvident?

improvident has 4 syllables and divides as im-pro-vi-dent under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for improvident?

Close synonyms include ill-considered, ill-judged, shortsighted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of improvident?

The recorded antonyms are provident.

Is improvident a common word?

improvident is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.