providential Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention
    miraculous; heaven-sent.
    • a heaven-sent rain saved the crops
    • a providential recovery
  2. adjective relating to or characteristic of providence
    • assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen
  3. adjective satellite resulting from divine providence
    divine.
    • providential care
    • a providential visitation

WordNet

Prov`i*den"tial adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. providentiel.
Definitions
  1. Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape. -- Prov"i*den"tial*ly, adv.

Webster 1913