Definition of Forward-looking

1. Adjective. Ahead of the times. "Is British industry innovative enough?"

Exact synonyms: Advanced, Innovative, Modern
Similar to: Progressive
Derivative terms: Innovativeness, Modernity

Definition of Forward-looking

1. Adjective. Having an interest in the future, and planning for it ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forward-looking

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forum
forum non conveniens
forum shopping
forumite
forumites
forums
forwake
forwaked
forwalk
forwalked
forwander
forwandered
forwandering
forward
forward-looking (current term)
forward-moving
forward-thinking
forward compatibility
forward compatible
forward conduction
forward dive
forward genetic
forward genetics
forward heart failure
forward link
forward market
forward motion
forward mutation

Literary usage of Forward-looking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. College and Commonwealth: And Other Educational Papers and Addresses by John Henry MacCracken (1920)
"... THE FORWARD LOOKING PRESBYTERIAN THE topic assigned to me this evening is "The Forward Looking Presbyterian." In the early days of Pennsylvania, ..."

2. Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young Or Old, who Cares to Read it by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1894)
"... THE OLD HOMESTEAD Mistress and Kf aid find to their Amazement tliat a Child, more ihan all other Gifts, brings Hope with it and forward looking Thoughts ..."

3. The Story of American Democracy, Political and Industrial by Willis Mason West (1922)
"CHAPTER XLII forward-looking MOVEMENTS BEFORE 1917 THE new moral earnestness ... The forward-looking movements treated in this chapter have all placed these ..."

4. Introduction to Economics by John Roscoe Turner (1919)
"The wage problem is forward-looking. 7. Effect of machinery upon wages. 8. Similarity of wages and rent. 9. The same principles for unlike agents, io. ..."

5. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... some time he walked regularly backward and forward, looking anxiously down the westward lines of the encampment, and occasionally whispering to himself ..."

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