foresee
verb (used with object)
to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
unforeseeing
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a word derived from
foresee.
Example Sentences
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The unforeseeing simpleton had actually come on the excursion without a box of matches!
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
It is easy to picture the shabby room wherein the unforeseeing Marie sits content between her mother and grandmother, all three diligently broidering altar cloths.
From A Versailles Christmas-Tide by A. S. Boyd
It was that spirit sent Oliver Cromwell himself packing for America, though a heedless and ill-advised and unforeseeing King would not let him go.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
An incarnate essence, a materialised spirit of Nature the unforeseeing, the lovely, the cruel and the immortal; ensouled alone, redeemable only by Humanity and its piteous sacrifice?
From Ayesha, the Return of She by Henry Rider Haggard
In 1867, when he first engaged with any vigour the Tungani, some excuse may be found for that unforeseeing action, in the fact that the Tungani were unbroken, and might have proved formidable neighbours.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
