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say it: PROO-duhnt
prudent is an adjective meaning "careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment". It carries one recorded sense.
careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
“a prudent manager”
“prudent rulers”
“prudent hesitation”
“more prudent to hide than to fight”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prudent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.