foresighty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From foresight + -y. Cognate with Scots foresichtie, forsichty, Dutch voorzichtig, German vorsichtig.
Adjective[edit]
foresighty (comparative more foresighty, superlative most foresighty)
- (chiefly UK dialectal) Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
- 1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect:
- Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]
- 1856, Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion:
- Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, 'fearfu' foresighty.'