foresightyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

foresighty (comparative more foresighty, superlative most foresighty)

1. (chiefly Britain dialectal) Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
   • 1801, James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect:

     Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]

   • 1856, Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion:

     Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, 'fearfu' foresighty.'

関連する語

• foresight
• foresightly