adv
Meaning 1
In a prudent manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prudently
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adverb
Meaning 2
in a prudent manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: providentially
Antonyms: imprudently
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English prudent Middle English -ly English -ly English prudently From prudent + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: prudentment — in a prudent manner
- Esperanto: prudente — in a prudent manner
- French: prudemment — in a prudent manner
- Galician: prudentemente — in a prudent manner
- German: umsichtig — in a prudent manner
- German: vorsichtig — in a prudent manner
- German: bedacht — in a prudent manner
- Italian: prudentemente — in a prudent manner
- Latin: prūdenter — in a prudent manner
- Old English: snotorlīċe — in a prudent manner
- Portuguese: prudentemente — in a prudent manner
- Spanish: prudentemente — in a prudent manner