Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PROV'I-DENT, a. [L. in and providens; pro and video, supra.]

Wanting forecast; not foreseeing what will be necessary or convenient, or neglecting the measures which foresight would dictate; wanting care to make provision for future exigencies. Seamen are proverbially improvident. It is sometimes followed by of; as, improvident of harm.