Usually means: Occurring by or involving divine intervention.
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  1. providential: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. providential: Merriam-Webster
  3. providential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. providential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. providential: Collins English Dictionary
  6. providential: Vocabulary.com
  7. Providential, providential: Wordnik
  8. providential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. providential: Wiktionary
  10. providential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. providential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. providential: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Providential, providential: Dictionary.com
  14. Providential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Providential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. providential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. providential: Rhymezone
  18. Providential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. providential: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. providential: FreeDictionary.org
  21. providential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. providential: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. providential: Legal dictionary

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  1. providential: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Pertaining to divine providence.
▸ adjective:  Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence.

Similar:
heaven-sent, miraculous, fortunate, divine, heavenly, providentialist, providentialistic, divinatory, vaticinal, prophetic, more...

Opposite:
unpropitious, unfavorable, inauspicious

Phrases:
timely and providential, more...

Adjectives:
most, plumb, plain, ardent, anti, certain, social, highest

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     white,     azure,     sapphire, more...

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Similar:
heaven-sent, miraculous, fortunate, divine, heavenly, providentialist, providentialistic, divinatory, vaticinal, prophetic, more...

Opposite:
unpropitious, unfavorable, inauspicious

Phrases:
timely and providential, more...

Adjectives:
most, plumb, plain, ardent, anti, certain, social, highest

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     white,     azure,     sapphire, more...



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