FARSIGHTED Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

farsighted

adjective

ˈfär-ˌsī-təd

Definition of farsighted

as in cautious

having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future farsighted conservationists long ago realized that wilderness areas of breathtaking beauty needed to be protected from future development

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Recent Examples of farsighted These word assemblages could then be linked to one another or branch off in entirely new directions—a farsighted idea for the time. — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025 No matter what compromises Lucas and our farsighted mayor at the time, Rahm Emanuel, offered, there was no compromise from this group. — Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025 Brazil’s post-dictatorship experience also suggests that democratic threats can be effectively managed with farsighted political reforms intended to protect democracy. — Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025 Eto’s lofty position in the Chicago underworld was unusual for an outsider, but the syndicate had always been more farsighted than other crime families in promoting gangsters of other ethnicities. — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 12 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for farsighted

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Adjective

Officials were urging residents to be cautious as the hurricane approached.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Despite expert consensus ranking him QB2 (31st overall), there's reason to be cautious.

— Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of cautious

Adjective

Without careful planning to reduce the constellations’ brightness, the team found that, in the most extreme case, the satellites could outnumber visible stars by a factor of 100.

— Arielle Frommer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
Maneuvering in tight spaces requires careful judgment of each individual case — and not just about which body part is least likely to cause offense when brought into close proximity to a fellow diner.

— Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of careful

Adjective

For many, a world with machines in charge can be hard to imagine without movies and books and their sometimes prescient visions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
My book was meant to highlight both the personal and societal issues of early literacy deprivation, while tracking the prescient issue of increasing screen time dumbing down and dehumanizing society.

— Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 July 2026

Definition of prescient

Adjective

Final Thoughts Powered by a faster processor and deeply integrated with proactive Gemini features, the Google Pixel Watch 5 transforms Wear OS into a truly intelligent assistant on your wrist.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026
Instead, without the ball, United move into a proactive 4-2-4 that blocks off passing lanes through the middle.

— Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of proactive

Adjective

There’s Big Ridley, the visionary filmmaker of large-scale epics who has spent nearly 50 years creating some of the most indelible worlds in modern movies.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Combining archival and original footage, and blurring the categories of documentary essay and the poetic avant-garde, Pelechian’s visionary works revolve around a grand recurring theme of humankind’s tumultuous relationship to the natural world.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of visionary

Adjective

The going concern disclosure is based on a forward-looking technical accounting analysis which considers only funding that has been unconditionally secured as of the date of the assessment.

— CBS Chicago Team, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Governments often model the tax base as stationary, but the tax base is composed of people making forward-looking decisions.

— Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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