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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention;
- Example: "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"
- Example: "a providential recovery"
[syn: heaven-sent, providential, miraculous]

2. relating to or characteristic of providence;
- Example: "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen

3. resulting from divine providence;
- Example: "providential care"
- Example: "a providential visitation"
[syn: providential, divine]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Providential \Prov`i*den"tial\, a. [Cf. F. providentiel.] Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape. -- Prov"i*den"tial*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

providential adj 1: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery" [syn: heaven-sent, providential, miraculous] 2: relating to or characteristic of providence; "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen 3: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

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