Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having forethought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having forethought.
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- adjective Having or full of
forethought ;provident ;proactive ;visionary .
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- adjective thoughtful of the future
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Examples
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They were more prudent and forethoughtful than we.
The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960
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At a very small additional expense, the State could have planted every rod of improved highway with productive trees, putting that forethoughtful specification into the contracts.
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Aunt Kitty was brave and forethoughtful, for during the week we were gone she had baked and cooked a large amount of substantial food that would keep us from starving while on our journey.
Thirty Years a Slave Hughes, Louis, 1832- 1897
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Kitty was brave and forethoughtful, for during the week we were gone she had baked and cooked a large amount of substantial food that would keep us from starving while on our journey.
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It was not much, it was not like the freedom of the forest, but pursued by one as tenacious and forethoughtful as he, it kept his muscles hard, his lungs strong, and his blood sparkling.
The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" 1890
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Evidently some forethoughtful man had prepared his cave early.
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Some forethoughtful man, whom the correspondents blessed, had remembered the three hours 'difference in time between Pueblo and New York, and against
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At Senator Hanway's dictation, the taciturn one who had been so forethoughtful as to bring with him envelopes and blanks, wrote messages to each of the hysterical eighteen, about twenty to a man, signing them with the names of those influential constituents.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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It was now set up in types, and the forethoughtful Mr. Sands had abstracted
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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They were led into systematic and forethoughtful courses, and thus found a training which they could in no other way have secured.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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