Word Meanings - IMPROVIDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.

Related words: (words related to IMPROVIDED)

• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• IMPROVIDENTLY
  In a improvident manner. "Improvidently rash." Drayton.
• PROVIDORE
  One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• IMPROVIDED
  Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• DREADABLE
  Worthy of being dreaded.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• PROVIDE
  1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind,
• PROVIDENTLY
  In a provident manner.
• DREAD
  To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.
• UNPROVIDENT
  Improvident. "Who for thyself art so unprovident.' Shak.