Meaning & use
Improvidently
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Without foresight or careful planning for the future; recklessly regarding consequences.
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He spent his inheritance improvidently and was broke within a year.
The company improvidently expanded into markets it did not understand.
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Improvidently is the adverb form of improvident, the opposite of provident, which itself comes from Latin providere, "to foresee."
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