PRUDENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prudently mean? 

• PRUDENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb PRUDENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a prudent manner

  Familiarity information: PRUDENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRUDENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a prudent manner

Synonyms:

providentially; prudently

Context example:

I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom.

Antonym:

imprudently (in an imprudent manner)

Pertainym:

prudent (careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment)

 Context examples 

Amy does too—I see it in her eyes, though she prudently waits to turn it over in her mind before she speaks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

His father was rendered easy by such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently be in his power to do for them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Or, if confiding anything to friends will be more likely to relieve you, you shall impart it to us, Mr. Micawber,” said Traddles, prudently.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Yes, but I don't know much, except about bread and a few trifles. You had better ask Mother's leave before you order anything," returned Meg prudently.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)