forward-looking

[fawr-werd-loo k-ing]

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adjective

planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.

Origin of forward-looking

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Related Words for forward-looking

good, useful, effective, constructive, practical, productive, reasonable, forward-looking, revolutionary, continuous, radical, modern, dynamic, tolerant, gradual, enlightened, reformist, contemporary, innovative, leading

Examples from the Web for forward-looking

Contemporary Examples of forward-looking

The advocates of slavery used the New Testament, and Shalev says this “was in itself innovative and forward-looking.”
Why Is American Politics So Religious and Divisive?
Jordan Michael Smith
March 30, 2013
Even for the most forward-looking courtier, that might be a modernization too far.
Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry's Hard-Partying Royal Wedding Date
Tom Sykes
April 26, 2011
Would a forward-looking perspective sound too much like a collection of predictions and promises?
Behind Obama's 100-Day PR Strategy
Richard Wolffe
April 26, 2009

Historical Examples of forward-looking

And the Organising Activity is not only upward-reaching, but forward-looking.
The Heart of Nature
Francis Younghusband
This is a forward-looking establishment where futures are made to order.
The Art of Stage Dancing
Ned Wayburn
Joubert already noticed this forward-looking of the modern mind.
The Intellectual Life
=Philip Gilbert Hamerton
I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side.
The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913
Various
But all the while there is a part of him that remains a sound Christian, a moralist, a right thinking and forward-looking man.
In Defense of Women
H. L. Mencken