forethoughtful

forethoughtful

English

WOTD – 20 March 2012

Etymology

From fore- +‎ thoughtful; or forethought +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹθɔtfʊl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːθɔːtfʊl/

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• Hyphenation: fore‧thought‧ful

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, chapter 3, in Gold:

     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, page 225:

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

Derived terms

• forethoughtfully
• forethoughtfulness

Translations

having forethought

Finnish: kaukonäköinen (fi), kaukokatseinen (fi) Russian: предусмотрительный (ru) (predusmotritelʹnyj) Swedish: förtänksam (sv), förutseende (sv), framsynt (sv) Ukrainian: передбачливий (peredbačlyvyj), завбачливий (zavbačlyvyj)