forethoughtful

comparative more forethoughtful · superlative most forethoughtful

1. Having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.

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

   2006, Roger MacBride Allen, BSI Starside: The Cause of Death, →ISBN, page 225

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   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.

   1827, Thomas Aird, Religious Characteristics, William Blackwood (Edinburgh), p. 290 (Google preview)

   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.

   1913, Stewart Edward White, chapter 3, in Gold