English Dictionary

provident

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɒvɪdənt/

形容詞

Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future. / Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it.

日本語の意味

将来に対して非常に注意深く、配慮を持ちながら行動すること / 特にお金や食料などの資源を無駄にしないために注意深く使用すること

Her provident decision to build an emergency fund meant she could cover several months of expenses when she unexpectedly lost her job.

彼女が非常時のための予備資金を築くという先を見越した決断をしていたおかげで、失業したときでも数か月分の生活費を賄うことができた。

意味（1）

Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, Courage and hope both teaching him the practise, To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;

意味（2）

Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it.

Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse, just in our charges, provident of our time, watchfull in our dutie, carefull of every word we speak.

意味（3）

Providing (for someone’s needs).

These advantages [the soil] receives from the culture of seeds, exclusive of the rest and manure, which is scattered upon it by that most provident of all cattle, sheep […]

more provident （ comparative ）

most provident （ superlative ）