September 19, 2006 - Improvident
Improvident \im-PROV-uh-duhnt; -dent\, adjective:
Lacking foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent or thoughtless.
Elizabeth's husband . . . had been a reckless, improvident man, who left many debts behind him when he died suddenly of a consumption in September 1704.
-- David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life
Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick, Sight-Readings: American Fictions
He called the decision "an exercise in raw judicial power" that was "improvident and extravagant."
-- Linda Greenhouse, "White Announces He'll Step Down From High Court", New York Times, March 20, 1993
Improvident derives from Latin improvidens, improvident-, from im- (for in-), "not" + providens, provident-, present participle of providere, "to see beforehand, to provide for," from pro-, "before, forward" + videre, "to see."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for improvident
Youtube's search interpreter is weird. It obviously found no exact matches for improvident, so it's word-form database and logic told it to strip off the -nt to form improvide (which is must understand as some construction of the word "provide"), but since improvide is not a word, it didn't find anything except two videos where the user misspelled improvise. This is how I get most of the less obvious word-match videos I find.
It's video like this that make me despair of ever learning to play guitar. My fingers just don't move that fast. Rock and Roll is forever. Party on Marty:
Whammy link.
Lacking foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent or thoughtless.
Elizabeth's husband . . . had been a reckless, improvident man, who left many debts behind him when he died suddenly of a consumption in September 1704.
-- David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life
Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick, Sight-Readings: American Fictions
He called the decision "an exercise in raw judicial power" that was "improvident and extravagant."
-- Linda Greenhouse, "White Announces He'll Step Down From High Court", New York Times, March 20, 1993
Improvident derives from Latin improvidens, improvident-, from im- (for in-), "not" + providens, provident-, present participle of providere, "to see beforehand, to provide for," from pro-, "before, forward" + videre, "to see."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for improvident
Youtube's search interpreter is weird. It obviously found no exact matches for improvident, so it's word-form database and logic told it to strip off the -nt to form improvide (which is must understand as some construction of the word "provide"), but since improvide is not a word, it didn't find anything except two videos where the user misspelled improvise. This is how I get most of the less obvious word-match videos I find.
It's video like this that make me despair of ever learning to play guitar. My fingers just don't move that fast. Rock and Roll is forever. Party on Marty:
Whammy link.
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