Careful vs Foresighty - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between careful and foresighty

is that careful is (obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad while foresighty is foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.

* carefull (obsolete)

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.

*, Bk.V:

*:‘Alas,’ sayde Sir Cadore, ‘now carefull is myne herte that now lyeth dede my cosyn that I beste loved.’

(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:

*:Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.

Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.

:He was a slow and careful driver.

Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

:They made a careful search of the crime scene.

* See also * See also

* careless

* carefully

(en-adj)

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 .'