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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, extravagant, feckless, grasshopper, happy-go-lucky, headlong, heedless, hubristic, impetuous, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, lavish, negligent, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, prodigal, profligate, profuse, rash, reckless, shiftless, short-sighted, spendthrift, temerarious, thoughtless, thriftless, unchary, uneconomical, unmindful, unproviding, unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, unwary, wasteful
Dictionary Results for improvident:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
improvident
    adj 1: not provident; not providing for the future [ant:
           provident]
    2: not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions
       often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt" [syn:
       ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident,
       shortsighted]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Improvident \Im*prov"i*dent\, a. [Pref. im- not + provident: cf.
   L. improvidus. See Provident, and cf. Imprudent.]
   Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not
   foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent;
   thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
   [1913 Webster]

         Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,
         This sudden mischief never could have fallen. --Shak.

   Syn: Inconsiderable; negligent; careless; shiftless;
        prodigal; wasteful.
        [1913 Webster]

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