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foresighty en · ADJ

Etymology

From foresight + -y. Cognate with Scots foresichtie, forsichty, Dutch voorzichtig, German vorsichtig.

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal) Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
   • Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...] 1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect:
   • Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, 'fearfu' foresighty.' 1856, Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion:

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Relateds

foresight · foresightly