provident
adjective
1. demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.
- a provident father plans for his children's education
Similar word(s): careful, thrifty, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient, forehanded, forethoughtful, prudent, farsighted, presbyopic, thrifty
2. careful in regard to your own interests
- wild squirrels are provident
Similar word(s): prudent