unforeseeing

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adjective

Not foreseeing; without foresight.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveunforeseeing (comparative more unforeseeing, superlative most unforeseeing)

comparative more unforeseeing · superlative most unforeseeing

  1. Not foreseeing; without foresight.

    It was that spirit sent Oliver Cromwell himself packing for America, though a heedless and ill-advised and unforeseeing King would not let him go.

    1914, H. G. Wells, An Englishman Looks at the World
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    And then he seemed to discern in her something that was familiar, something which carried him back into a joyous and unforeseeing past, before the necessity of taking thought had made the heavens gray.

    1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC

Origin

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