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foresighty
foresighty
English
Adjective
foresighty (comparative foresightier or more foresighty, superlative foresightiest or most foresighty)
- (chiefly Britain 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.'
- 1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect: