unforeseeing

English

Etymology

un- +‎ foreseeing

Adjective

unforeseeing (comparative more unforeseeing, superlative most unforeseeing)

  1. Not foreseeing; without foresight.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles‎:
      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:
      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.
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