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foresighty

foresighty adjective: foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.

Adjective

foresighty (comparative more foresighty, superlative most foresighty)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
    • Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect
    • Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, 'fearfu' foresighty.'1856, Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion

Forms of foresighty

comparativemore foresighty
superlativemost foresighty

Origin of foresighty

From foresight + -y. Cognate with Scots foresichtie, forsichty, Dutch voorzichtig, German vorsichtig.

Questions about foresighty

What does foresighty mean?
Foresighty means foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
What part of speech is foresighty?
Foresighty is an adjective.

Words near foresighty in the dictionary

  1. foresightfulness
  2. foresightless
  3. foresightlessness
  4. foresightly
  5. foresights
  6. foresighty
  7. foresign
  8. foresignal
  9. foresignaled
  10. foresignaling
  11. foresignalled

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