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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Prudent; foresighted.
  • adjective Able to see far; keen-sighted.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Seeing far; having foresight or forethought.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.
  • adjective Having foresight as regards the future.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having good eyesight; eagle-eyed
  • adjective Characterized by prudence and foresight

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of seeing to a great distance
  • adjective planning prudently for the future

Etymologies

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Partly from far +‎ seeing; partly from farsee +‎ -ing.

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