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Definition of Forward-looking
1. Adjective. Ahead of the times. "Is British industry innovative enough?"
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
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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