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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--forehanded This week's theme: words for body parts used figuratively. forehanded (FOR-han-did) adjective 1. Providing for the future needs; prudent. 2. Well-to-do. 3. Made with the palm facing forward (such as a stroke in tennis). [From forehand, from fore- (front) + hand. From the idea of having worked toward the future.] A similar, more common, word is "foresighted". Then there is "backhanded" which is not an antonym of "forehanded". Rather, it implies something indirect, ambiguous, and by extension, sarcastic, as in "a backhanded compliment". Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The prospect of this devastating drought might not have turned the tide had not the brewers also made forehanded investments in the politicians of Thatcher's party." David S. Broder; British Beer Barons Brew Up Big Win in Battle Over Pubs; The Washington Post; Jul 11, 1989. X-Bonus If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. -Barry Jones, politician, author (1932- )

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