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Antonyms for prudence
ˈprud nspru·dence

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  1. prudencenoun

    Antonyms:
    rashness, recklessness, imprudence

    Synonyms:
    forecast, providence, caution, discretion, considerateness, circumspection, judgment, judiciousness, wisdom

  2. prudencenoun

    The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.

    Synonyms:
    circumspection, forecast, discretion, wisdom, considerateness, judiciousness, judgment, providence, caution

    Antonyms:
    imprudence, recklessness, rashness

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  1. prudence

    Prudence may be briefly defined as good judgment and foresight, inclining to caution and frugality in practical affairs. Care may respect only the present; prudence and providence look far ahead and sacrifice the present to the future, prudence watching, saving, guarding, providence planning, doing, preparing, and perhaps expending largely to meet the future demand. Frugality is in many cases one form of prudence. In a besieged city prudence will reduce the rations, providence will strain every nerve to introduce supplies and to raise the siege. Foresight merely sees the future, and may even lead to the recklessness and desperation to which prudence and providence are so strongly opposed. Forethought is thinking in accordance with wise views of the future, and is nearly equivalent to providence, but it is a more popular and less comprehensive term; we speak of man's forethought, God's providence. Compare CARE; FRUGALITY; WISDOM.

    Antonyms:
    folly, heedlessness, improvidence, imprudence, indiscretion, prodigality, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness, wastefulness

    Synonyms:
    care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, consideration, discretion, forecast, foresight, forethought, frugality, judgment, judiciousness, providence, wisdom

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  1. prudencenoun

    discretion in practical affairs

    Antonyms:
    imprudence

    Synonyms:
    discretion, circumspection, discreetness

  2. discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudencenoun

    knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress

    "the servants showed great tact and discretion"

    Antonyms:
    imprudence

    Synonyms:
    discreetness, circumspection, free will, delicacy, diplomacy, discretion, caution, finesse, discernment

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  1. prudencenoun

    Synonyms:
    discretion, caution

How to use prudence in a sentence?

  1. Nicolas Chamfort:

    Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

  2. Mark Twain:

    It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  3. Democritus:

    Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

  5. Democritus:

    Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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