providential

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: prov=i=den=tial

CIDE DICTIONARY

providential, a. [Cf. F. providentiel.].

 Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

providential, adj.
1 of or by divine foresight or interposition.
2 opportune, lucky.

Derivative

providentially adv.

Etymology

PROVIDENCE + -IAL, after evidential etc.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

providential

adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

THESAURUS

providential

God-given, accorded, allowed, anticipant, anticipatory, appropriate, auspicious, befitting, benignant, bestowed, blessed, blessed with luck, clairvoyant, convenient, divinatory, expedient, farseeing, farsighted, favorable, favored, felicitous, fit, fitting, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, fortunate, given, granted, gratuitous, happy, in luck, intuitive, kind, kindly, longsighted, lucky, meet, opportune, precognitive, precognizant, prepared, prescient, propitious, provident, prudent, ready, ripe, sagacious, seasonable, sortable, suitable, timely, vouchsafed, well, well-timed

ROGET THESAURUS

providential

Prosperity

N prosperity, welfare, well-being, affluence, success, thrift, roaring trade, good fortune, smiles of fortune, blessings, godsend, luck, good luck, run of luck, sunshine, fair weather, fair wind, palmy days, bright days, halcyon days, piping times, tide, flood, high tide, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, golden time, golden age, bed of roses, fat city, fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes, made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom, prosperous, thriving, in a fair way, buoyant, well off, well to do, well to do in the world, set up, at one's ease, rich, in good case, in full, in high feather, fortunate, lucky, in luck, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star, on the sunny side of the hedge, auspicious, propitious, providential, palmy, halcyon, agreeable, couleur de rose, prosperously, swimmingly, as good luck would have it, beyond all hope, one's star in the ascendant, all for the best, one's course runs smooth, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos, felicitas multos habet amicos, felix se nescit amari, good luck go with thee, nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.

Occasion

N timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room, event (eventuality), suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time, high time, opportuneness, tempestivity, crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture, crisis, turning point, given time, nick of time, golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening, clear stage, fair field, mollia tempora, fata Morgana, spare time, opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable, providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical, suitable, obiter dicta, opportunely, in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time, for the nonce, in the nick of time, in the fullness of time, all in good time, just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never, by the way, by the by, en passant, a propos, pro re nata, pro hac vice, par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally, while speaking of, while on the subject, extempore, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, on the spot, carpe diem occasionem cognosce, one's hour is come, the time is up, that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it, bien perdu bien connu, e sempre l'ora, ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius, nosce tempus, nunc aut nunquam.