Meanings
adjectiveforesighty (comparative more foresighty, superlative most foresighty)
comparative more foresighty · superlative most foresighty
- UKdialectalForesighted; provident; cautious; careful.
Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, 'fearfu' foresighty.'
1856, Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion1 more example
Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]
1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect
Origin
From foresight + -y. Cognate with Scots foresichtie, forsichty, Dutch voorzichtig, German vorsichtig.
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Chicago
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