unforeseeing
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + foreseeing.
Adjective
editunforeseeing (comparative more unforeseeing, superlative most unforeseeing)
- Not foreseeing; without foresight.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
- And then he seemed to discern in her something that was familiar, something which carried him back into a joyous and unforeseeing past, before the necessity of taking thought had made the heavens gray.
- 1914, H. G. Wells, An Englishman Looks at the World[1]:
- 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.