forethought Definition
fore·thought (fôr′t̸hôt′)
noun
- a thinking or planning beforehand; premeditation
- prudent thought for the future; foresight
adjective
planned beforehand
forethought Synonyms
forethought Usage Examples
Converse of object
- require: They are not insurmountable, but they do require slightly more forethought.
- exercise: Authors should exercise more forethought as to the points they want to make from their illustrations.
- have: Secondly, the way to make cooking easy is to have some forethought.
- take: It's an odd set of priorities that takes more forethought for salamanders than for our children.
- show: Ben showed great forethought in calling an ambulance and for not forgetting his young sister who was in the bath at the time.
- give: The house was specifically designed that way - just one example of the forethought given to the whole business of cooking à la Macdonald.
Adjective modifier
- little: With a little forethought I should have used copper.
- much: After much forethought and deliberation, I took delivery of the trike last October.
- more: The more forethought you can give to the task of running your business, the more likely you are to succeed.
- considerable: However, financing and distribution of such vaccines require considerable forethought and is not a simple matter [ 10 ] .
- careful: The temples and the palaces were indeed laid out with careful forethought and ambitious vision.
- great: Ben showed great forethought in calling an ambulance and for not forgetting his young sister who was in the bath at the time.
Modifies a noun
felony: Killing by forethought felony was unnatural, against the law of nature.
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