SkyfireDict

providential   (TTS Sound)

The adj providential has 3 senses

• heaven-sent, providential, miraculous -- (peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery")


• providential -- (relating to or characteristic of providence; "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen)


• providential, divine -- (resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation")