ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsPprudent
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prudent
Meaning: showing care and thought for the future; wise
prudent in a sentence
How prudent is used in real sentences:
It's prudent to save some of your allowance each week.
It's prudent to save some of your allowance each week.
“Because an incongruous plastic bead could be mistaken for the crab's ornament, Chen made the prudent decision to leave each arrangement untouched until its history was clear.”
— from the passage A Basin Between Tides
Synonyms for prudent
Other words for prudent — cautious, judicious and sensible — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of prudent
Words that mean the opposite of prudent:
- reckless
- rash
- imprudent
Where it comes from
From Latin prudens 'foreseeing'
Memory hook
A PRUDE is careful — a PRUDENT person is carefully wise.