foresighty

adj

adj

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

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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