prudent
Meanings
Adjective
- careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
- "a prudent manager"
- "prudent rulers"
- "prudent hesitation"
- "more prudent to hide than to fight"
Adj
- Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct.
- Practically wise, judicious, shrewd.
- Frugal, economical.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English prudent, from Old French prudent, from Latin prūdēns, contracted from prōvidēns (“foresight”) (English providence), the past participle of prōvideō (“I forsee”). Unrelated to prude. Doublet of provident.
Synonyms
abstemious, alert, astute, attentive, canny, careful, cautelous, cautious, chary, cheap, circumspect, clairvoyant, close with a buck, conservative, considerate, deep, deliberate, discreet, economical, frood, frugal, grounded, guarded, heedful, heedy, hesitant, husbandly, huswifely, judicious, meticulous, mindful, oracular, parsimonious, penny-pinching, perspicacious, politic, profound, prudent, quick-witted, reasonable, reckful, safe, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, shy, slow, spareful, sparing, tentative, thrifty, tight, tightwad, timid, timorous, wary, well-advised, wise, witful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
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