unprovident

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ provident.

Adjective

unprovident (comparative more unprovident, superlative most unprovident)

1. (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

2. (obsolete) lacking thrift.