unforesightful
Definition
Adjective: 1. Lacking foresight or scope: Describes a person, plan, or perspective that fails to consider or plan for future events and long-term consequences. It implies a narrow, limited view focused only on immediate concerns.
Usage
The adjective "unforesightful" is a formal term used to critique decisions, policies, or thinking. It describes an approach that is not forward-looking. - It typically modifies nouns like thinking, policy, decision, approach, or person. - It carries a negative connotation, suggesting a deficiency in planning or wisdom.
Examples
- The board's unforesightful strategy led to avoidable problems five years later.
- It was an unforesightful decision to neglect infrastructure maintenance.
- Critics dismissed the proposal as unforesightful and reactionary.
Advanced Usage
- "to be unforsightful of": This construction is less common but can be used to specify what was not foreseen.
- The administration was unforesightful of the coming economic shift.
Variants and Related Words
- Unforesightfully (adverb): In a manner lacking foresight.
- The company expanded unforesightfully, without considering market saturation.
- Unforesightfulness (noun): The quality or state of lacking foresight.
- The project's failure was a result of sheer unforesightfulness.
Synonyms
- Shortsighted: Lacking foresight; concerned only with immediate needs.
- Myopic: Lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.
- Improvident: Not providing for the future; thoughtless.
- Near-sighted: (Metaphorically) Having a limited view of the future.
Antonyms
- Farsighted: Having or showing foresight and good judgment.
- Provident: Making or indicative of timely preparation for the future.
- Prudent: Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
- Visionary: Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Short-term thinking: A phrase describing the mindset criticized by "unforesightful."
- The budget cuts are a classic example of short-term thinking.
- Fail to see the big picture: To be overly focused on details and miss long-term goals or broader context, similar to being unforsightful.
- By focusing only on quarterly profits, they failed to see the big picture.
Adjective
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lacking foresight or scope
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a short view of the problem
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shortsighted policies
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shortsighted critics derided the plan
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myopic thinking
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