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Foresight vs Foreright - What's the difference?

foresight | foreright |

As a noun foresight

is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

As an adjective foreright is

(archaic) ready, directly forward, going before.

As an adverb foreright is

(archaic) right forward, onward.

foresight

English

Noun

(-)
  • The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
    • Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
  • the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
  • (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

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * foresee * backsight

    Anagrams

    * English abstract nouns

    foreright

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) ready, directly forward, going before
  • * Chapman
    • A foreright wind.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) right forward, onward
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , my hips being borne up, and my thighs at their utmost extension, the gleamy warmth that shot from it made him feel that he was at the mouth of the indraught, and driving foreright , the powerfully divided lips of that pleasure-thirsty channel receiv'd him.}} (Webster 1913)