foresightful
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Planning prudently for the future: Having or showing the ability to anticipate and make wise plans for future needs or events.
- Characterized by foresight: Demonstrating careful consideration of long-term outcomes and consequences.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The CEO's foresightful strategy secured the company's stability during the economic downturn.
- Only a foresightful government would invest so heavily in renewable energy infrastructure.
- Her foresightful decision to save money early allowed her to retire comfortably.
Advanced Usage
- "To be foresightful": To possess the quality of foresight.
- A good leader must be foresightful, not just reactive.
- "Foresightful planning/approach": Describing planning characterized by foresight.
- The project's success was due to its foresightful planning, which accounted for potential delays.
Variants and Related Words
- Foresight (n): The ability to predict or plan for the future.
- His foresight in buying the property proved to be very profitable.
- Farsighted (adj): Able to see distant objects clearly; (figuratively) having foresight. (Note: This is a close synonym, often used interchangeably in the figurative sense).
- The committee made a farsighted decision to expand the research facility.
Synonyms
- Prudent: Acting with or showing care for the future.
- Provident: Making or indicative of timely preparation for the future.
- Forward-looking: Planning for or anticipating the future.
Antonyms
- Shortsighted: Lacking foresight or long-term planning.
- Improvident: Not providing for the future; careless.
- Myopic: Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.
Adjective
- planning prudently for the future
- large goals that required farsighted policies
- took a long view of the geopolitical issues