far-sighted
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "It was in November, 1932, in an endeavour to reduce working costs, that the first diesel railcar was introduced, and it was a far-sighted move on the part of Mr. D. N. McClure, for diesel propulsion on railways was then more or less in its infancy."
- "Gavin Johns, chairman of the Swanage Railway Trust, said: "I would like to thank our stakeholders for their far-sighted investment of £5.5 million to re-connect Swanage and Corfe Castle with the main line, which included £1.8m from the Government's coastal communities fund, so we could restore our 1950s heritage diesel trains for running on the main line.""
Inflected Forms
more far-sighted (comparative)
most far-sighted (superlative)