Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: foresight
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹs,aɪt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulness
    Meaning: providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
Usage examples
  • This extension of our insight makes foresight more accurate and comprehensive.
  • This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind.
  • One result of this visit was a letter which showed him possessed with wonderful powers of analysis and foresight.
  • Mr. Andersson also pinches the paper into a ridge along the middle of the gun, to ensure a more defined foresight.
  • So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect.
  • One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person.
  • Leave out the direction which depends upon foresight of possible future results, and there is no intelligence in present behavior.
  • He, at least, respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour to their remains.
  • It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each.
  • Now mucous secretions surcharged the tongue, and took away the power of speech; now the sick one spoke, but in speaking had a foresight of death.