providentially
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Definition
- Adverb:
- In a way that is fortunate and seems to be the result of divine intervention or good luck: Happening at just the right time, as if by a benevolent force or fate.
- In a prudent or wisely careful manner: Acting with foresight and good judgment for the future.
Usage Examples
Adverb (Fortunate/Divine Intervention):
- The rain stopped providentially just before the outdoor ceremony began.
- A donor appeared providentially to fund the project at the last moment.
Adverb (Prudent/Foresightful):
- She had providentially saved a portion of her income every month.
- He acted providentially by packing an umbrella, which he needed later.
Advanced Usage
"to arrive providentially": to appear at a perfect, often desperately needed, moment.
- The rescue team arrived providentially as our supplies were running out.
Used to describe a sequence of events: Often frames a positive outcome as more than mere coincidence.
- Providentially, all the key decisions led to an unexpectedly successful result.
Variants and Related Words
Providential (adjective): Relating to divine foresight or a fortunate occurrence.
- Their meeting was a providential event that changed both their lives.
Providence (noun): The protective care or guidance of God or nature; prudent management of resources.
- They trusted in providence to guide them.
Synonyms
- Fortunately: By good luck.
- Auspiciously: In a way that suggests a positive outcome.
- Prudently: In a wise and careful way regarding the future.
- Fortuitously: By a happy chance.
Antonyms
- Unfortunately: By bad luck.
- Improvidently: Without foresight or care for the future.
- Inauspiciously: In a way that suggests a negative outcome.
Related Idioms/Phrases
- A stroke of providence: An unexpected piece of good fortune.
- Finding that job was a stroke of providence for him.
- To thank providence: To express gratitude for good fortune.
- She thanked providence for her family's safety.
Adverb
- in a prudent manner
- 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.
- in a providential manner; as determined by providence
- his providentially destined role
- in a fortunately providential manner
- providentially the weather remained good