prudent
PROO-duntadjMeaning careful and sensible, especially about the future
Memory hook PRU-DENT: Pru’s car has no DENT. Pru checks her mirrors, keeps her distance and slows down in the rain, so her old car has never had a single dent: she is prudent.
It is prudent to pack a flashlight before a camping trip.
In context Rather than spend his whole paycheck, Jamal thought it prudent to save some for the winter, when work at the farm always slowed down.
Similar careful, sensible, cautious, judicious
Opposite reckless, rash, careless
From Latin prudens, a shortened form of providens, “seeing ahead.”