unprovident
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unprovident (comparative more unprovident, superlative most unprovident)
- (obsolete) lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 10”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thyself art so unprovident
- (obsolete) lacking thrift.