different between foresight vs forehanded

English

Etymology

From Middle English forsight, forsyght, forsichte, equivalent to fore- +? sight. Compare Scots foresicht (“foresight”), Saterland Frisian Foarsicht (“caution”), West Frisian foarútsjoch (“foresight”), Dutch voorzicht (“foresight”), German Vorsicht (“caution; care; attention”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??sa?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??sa?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?fo(?)?sa?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?fo?sa?t/
• Homophone: Forsythe (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Hyphenation: fore?sight

Noun

foresight (countable and uncountable, plural foresights)

1. The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
2. the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
3. (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

Synonyms

• (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future): prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

Antonyms

• hindsight

Derived terms

• foresightly
• foresighty

Related terms

• foresee
• backsight

Translations

Anagrams

• gift horse, gift-horse

English

Etymology

From forehand +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???hand?d/

Adjective

forehanded (comparative more forehanded, superlative most forehanded)

1. (now US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 88:

     ‘I dun'no' whether it air night or no,’ she said [...]. ‘I mought be too forehanded a-gittin' supper fur aught I kin tell.’
2. (obsolete, US) Wealthy.
3. (not comparable) Executed with a forehand stroke.
4. Direct, straightforward, sincere.
5. (obsolete) Paid or executed in advance.
6. (obsolete) Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse.

Adverb

forehanded (comparative more forehanded, superlative most forehanded)

1. With a forehand stroke.