providential.

1. Happening helpfully at just the right time, as though arranged by a benevolent power.

2. Understood as involving a deity's care or ordering of events.

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Words that belong together

• providential escape
• providential arrival

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The guide's arrival seemed providential.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more providential; superlative most providential when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.