All 3 Uses
prudent
in
Alas, Babylon
(Auto-generated)
- Yet she judiciously classified the personal intelligence that flowed under her plump fingers, and maintained a prudent censorship over her tongue.†
Chpt 1
- A few optimistic storekeepers had prudently boarded windows, split by blast on The Day or broken by looters afterwards, against water and wind.
Chpt 8 *prudently = with good sense and caution
- The Admiral's experience in meeting the unpredictable and brutish pranks of war had saved them from premature or imprudent action.†
Chpt 11imprudent = unwisestandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudent means not and reverses the meaning of prudent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
Definitions:
-
(1)
(prudent) sensible and careful
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Prudence is also a female name.