Meanings
comparative more foresightly · superlative most foresightly
- rarePossessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care or foresight; thoughtful; provident.
"I suppose that you, as a foresightly person, have made arrangements to turn all your cases and clients over to some other Analyst in the event of your timely (for to an Analyst nothing is untimely) death" Jonah asked matter-of-factly […]
1992, R. A. Lafferty, Iron Tears1 more example
I have thought more of it than you have done — for I have two or three presents carefully [laid] by for her, and I have also been so foresightly as to purchase two Dutch toys for your Children in case you might marry before we had free […]
1893, William Gershom Collingwood, The life of John Ruskin
Origin
From foresight + -ly. Compare foresighty.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish kaukokatseinen
- kaukokatseinendemonstrating foresight
Russian предусмотри́тельный
- предусмотри́тельный (predusmotrítelʹnyj)demonstrating foresight
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foresightly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foresightly
“foresightly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foresightly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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