Antonyms for foresight
ˈfɔrˌsaɪt, ˈfoʊr-fore·sight

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1. foresightnoun

   Antonyms:
   hindsight

2. foresightnoun

   The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

   Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.

   Antonyms:
   hindsight

   Synonyms:
   foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prescience, prophecy

3. foresightnoun

   Antonyms:
   hindsight

4. foresightnoun

   Antonyms:
   hindsight

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1. foresight

   Expectation may be either of good or evil; presentiment almost always, apprehension and foreboding always, of evil; anticipation and antepast, commonly of good. Thus, we speak of the pleasures of anticipation. A foretaste may be of good or evil, and is more than imaginary; it is a part actually received in advance. Foresight and forethought prevent future evil and secure future good by timely looking forward, and acting upon what is foreseen. Compare ANTICIPATE.

   Antonyms:
   astonishment, consummation, despair, doubt, doubt, dread, enjoyment, fear, realization, surprise, wonder

   Synonyms:
   antepast, anticipation, apprehension, expectancy, expectation, foreboding, forecast, foretaste, forethought, hope, presentiment, prevision

Matched Categories

1. • Knowing
   • Providence

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulnessnoun

   providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future

   Synonyms:
   prospicience, farsightedness, foresightedness, prevision, foresightfulness

2. prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospiciencenoun

   seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

   Synonyms:
   foresightfulness, anticipation, prescience, longsightedness, prediction, farsightedness, hypermetropy, prevision, hypermetropia, prospicience, hyperopia, presbyopia, foresightedness

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1. foresightnoun

   Synonyms:
   prescience, foreknowledge, prudence

How to use foresight in a sentence?

1. Joseph Addison:

   There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

2. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Some statesmen have been tagged as having great 'foresight' in their deliberations and activities. Are there any historical records of outstanding statesmen as possessing 'sight' in the ninth, tenth or double digit degree in their particular category of achievement?

3. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V:

   Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   **(C)(P)-THE URGENCY OF NOW-SITUATION DICTATES THAT WE ACT WITH DUE DILIGENCE AND COMPETENCE TO GET AND ACHIEVE OUR FOCUSED OBJECTIVES. DIFFICULT CONSEQUENCES MAY ARISE FROM DIFFICULT DECISIONS MADE. HINDSIGHT MAY ALWAYS TRY TO VALIDATE FORESIGHT, BUT ONLY IF FORESIGHT WAS PREDICTABLE IN ITS OUTCOMES!

5. Link Starbureiy:

   Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

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