prudent
Adjective
- Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
- 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.
Examples
- A prudent Words With Friends player always saves high-value tiles for bigger plays.
- His prudent career moves reliably brought him to the top.
- Only prudent expenditure may provide quality within a restrictive budget.
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, spary, tentative, thrifty, tight, tightwad, timid, timorous, wary, well-advised, wise, witful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
prudent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordprudent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prudent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary