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providence

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of providence

1 careful management of material resources

  • practicing its customary providence, the snowbound family was able to make the meager stores last until help arrived
Synonyms of providence

economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, scrimping, skimping, thrift
Words Related to providence

conservation, saving

miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess

belt-tightening, retrenchment

discretion, forehandedness, prudence

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance
Near Antonyms of providence

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering
Antonyms of providence

diseconomy, wastefulness

2 concern or preparation for the future

  • had the providence to lay in supplies before the storm hit
Synonyms of providence

farsightedness, foresight, foresightedness, forethought, prescience, vision
Words Related to providence

precaution, premeditation

discernment, discretion, insight, perception, perceptiveness, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, wisdom
Near Antonyms of providence

hindsight
Antonyms of providence

improvidence, myopia, shortsightedness

3 capitalized the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe

  • she trusted in Providence to see her through the crisis
Synonyms of providence

Allah, Almighty, Author, Creator, deity, Divinity, Eternal, Everlasting, Father, God, Godhead, Jehovah, King, Lord, Maker, Supreme Being, Yahweh (also Jahveh)

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