English

Adjective

forethoughtful ‎(comparative more forethoughtful, superlative most forethoughtful)

1. 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, Gold, ch. 3:

     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 9780553901382, p. 225 (Google preview):

     And I should have been forethoughtful enough to see the looming danger.

Derived terms

• forethoughtfully
• forethoughtfulness

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