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Cautious vs Foresighty - What's the difference?

cautious | foresighty |

As adjectives the difference between cautious and foresighty

is that cautious is careful; using or exercising caution; tentative while foresighty is foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.

cautious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • careful; using or exercising caution; tentative
    • He took a few cautious steps out the door.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * neglecting * careless

    Derived terms

    * overcautious

    foresighty

    English

    Adjective

    (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 .'

    Related terms

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