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forehandedly

forehandedly adverb: prudently, with thrift and foresight.

Adverb

forehandedly (comparative more forehandedly, superlative most forehandedly)

  1. Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
    • All that we have done comes as the result of a certain insistence that since we must work it is better to work intelligently and forehandedly.1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC
  2. Ahead of time, in advance.
    • Nevertheless, because of the frequent transposition between the two sexes of the traits supposedly specific of each -- a far more frequent transposition than the conventional division between the sexes affords opportunity to observe, the woman being often the more aggressive, the man the more...2013, Trigant Burrow, The Social Basis Of Consciousness: A Study In Organic Psychology, →ISBN

Forms of forehandedly

comparativemore forehandedly
superlativemost forehandedly

Origin of forehandedly

From forehanded + -ly.

Questions about forehandedly

What does forehandedly mean?
Forehandedly means prudently, with thrift and foresight.
What part of speech is forehandedly?
Forehandedly is an adverb.

Words near forehandedly in the dictionary

  1. forehalsen
  2. forehammer
  3. forehammers
  4. forehand
  5. forehanded
  6. forehandedly
  7. forehandedness
  8. forehander
  9. forehanders
  10. forehanding
  11. forehands

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