Forehanded

/fɔːˈhandɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

(now US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.
2. (obsolete, US) Wealthy.
3. (not comparable) Executed with a forehand stroke.
4. Direct, straightforward, sincere.
5. (obsolete) Paid or executed in advance.
6. (obsolete) Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse.
7. With a forehand stroke.

Example Sentences

‘I dun'no' whether it air night or no,’ she said [...]. ‘I mought be too forehanded a-gittin' supper fur aught I kin tell.’

First, a U.S. President is being forehanded for once. The new Common Market tariff structure has not yet begun to hurt our exporters (many of them, even more forehanded, have sought sanctuary by building new plants in Europe).

"You're so forehanded that all your presents went a week ago, I suppose," Eleanor swept clear a chair.

The conditions of the old-time Salisbury hill-farm, which fed its owners on its spare-ribs and corn meal, and sweetened their taste with the crystallized sap of its maples, and which reckoned a man with a savings-bank account and a hundred stonewalled and unmortgaged acres "forehanded" if not positively rich, have ceased to be typical conditions of the American present-day prosperity.

...cause if you have, look at that forehanded man there, Deacon Westfall, and you see the rich man.

No, he is not poor at all. My father has got a good farm, and is quite forehanded.

She caught a last glimpse of the pattern of the carpet when the forehanded chop with the edge of the palm came down on the back of the neck.

Known as a 'forehanded' (straightforward) man, Cushing became a landowner and an investor in local industries.

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• more forehanded
• most forehanded

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