forethoughtful
English
Etymology
From fore- + thoughtful; or forethought + -ful.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fore‧thought‧ful
Adjective
forethoughtful (comparative more forethoughtful, superlative most forethoughtful)
- Having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.
- 1827, Thomas Aird, Religious Characteristics, William Blackwood (Edinburgh), p. 290 (Google preview):
- But we live in an age of the world when a spirit is abroad which is more than directly and blessedly influential on the present,— which is forethoughtful and prospective, casting its relations like strong grappling-irons over the future, and claiming its issues.
- 1913, Stewart Edward White, chapter 3, in Gold:
- Meal times always caught the majority unaware. They tumbled and jostled down the companionways only to find the wise and forethoughtful had preëmpted every chair.
- 2006, Roger MacBride Allen, BSI Starside: The Cause of Death, →ISBN, p. 225 (Google preview):
- And I should have been forethoughtful enough to see the looming danger.
- 1827, Thomas Aird, Religious Characteristics, William Blackwood (Edinburgh), p. 290 (Google preview):
Derived terms
Translations
having forethought
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