adjective
definition
Failing to provide for the future; reckless
definition
Incautious; prone to rashness
Examples of improvident in a Sentence
They are for the most part, when left to their own resources, cruel, unjust, selfish and improvident.
The Malays are indolent, pleasure-loving, improvident beyond belief, fond of bright clothing, of comfort, of ease, and they dislike toil exceedingly.
Much splendid timber has been needlessly destroyed, chiefly by forest-fires, but also by improvident farmers in their haste to clear the land.
The propertyless bore almost the whole brunt of the famine brought about by their own improvident measures.
The extension of cultivation was considered as the chief care of government, and no regard was paid to the improvident waste going on on all sides.
The simple system of rural economy is entirely based upon the dealings of this man, whom it is the fashion sometimes to decry as a usurer, but who is really the one thrifty person among an improvident population.
Weak, self-indulgent, improvident, he had pursued a policy of opportunism to a fatal conclusion.
At other times her affectionate gaiety would give evidence as trustworthy of a fearless and improvident satisfaction.
Though not destitute of good impulses Lancaster was hasty, improvident and obstinate; he was unfortunate in his choice of friends, for he allied himself to all his fathers unscrupulous dependents.
Though he received a large income, he was so improvident that he was frequently in want, and on the 22nd of February 1822 the legislature of Maryland passed a remarkable resolution - the only one of the kind in American history - requiring every lawyer in the state to pay an annual licence fee of five dollars, to be handed over to trustees appointed "for the appropriation of the proceeds raised by virtue of this resolution to the use of Luther Martin."
The new sultan's reign marked, if not the beginning, at least the high tide Aba-ui-Aziz, o f that course of improvident and unrestrained 1861-1876.