forward-looking
Planning for tomorrow
Forward-looking means focused on or planning for the future rather than dwelling on the past or present: a forward-looking company investing in renewable energy, forward-looking policies that anticipate demographic shifts.
The term carries positive connotations of vision and progress.
In financial contexts, forward-looking statements are projections about future performance, often accompanied by legal disclaimers.
Ability to anticipate futures
- strategicDeliberately planned for advantage
- propheticForetelling future events
- anticipatoryFeeling or showing expectation
- insightfulHaving penetrating discernment
imaginative · prescient · futuristic · far-sighted · long-range · planning · forecasting · projection
Feeling positive expectation
- positiveAffirming or certain
- upbeatCheerfully optimistic
- sanguineCheerfully optimistic temperament
- buoyantAble to float
confident · cheerful · bright · encouraging · enthusiastic · eager · anticipatory · aspirational
Introducing new ideas
- reformistAdvocate for gradual change
- modernizingMaking something current
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- transformativeCausing major change
avant-garde · groundbreaking · cutting-edge · trailblazing · revolutionary · bold · dynamic · unconventional
Receptive to different ideas
- broad-mindedReceptive to differing views
- acceptingWilling to receive
- welcomingReceiving others warmly
- tolerantAccepting of differences
receptive · pluralistic · egalitarian · fair-minded · cosmopolitan · nonjudgmental · accommodating · progressive
foresight
Ability to anticipate futures
- strategicDeliberately planned for advantage
- propheticForetelling future events
- anticipatoryFeeling or showing expectation
insightful · imaginative · prescient · futuristic · far-sighted · long-range · planning · forecasting · projection · predictive
hopeful
Feeling positive expectation
buoyant · confident · cheerful · bright · encouraging · enthusiastic · eager · anticipatory · aspirational · idealistic
innovative
Introducing new ideas
- reformistAdvocate for gradual change
- modernizingMaking something current
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
transformative · avant-garde · groundbreaking · cutting-edge · trailblazing · revolutionary · bold · dynamic · unconventional · disruptive
open-minded
Receptive to different ideas
- broad-mindedReceptive to differing views
- acceptingWilling to receive
- welcomingReceiving others warmly
tolerant · receptive · pluralistic · egalitarian · fair-minded · cosmopolitan · nonjudgmental · accommodating · progressive · unprejudiced
- disclaimerswarning, fine print, notice, terms of use, waiver
- positive outlookhopeful, positive, optimistic, upbeat, cheerful
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- anticipationanticipating, expectation, expectancy, expecting, awaiting
- optimismoptimism, hope, positive thinking, positivity, hopeful
forward-lookingbackward-looking
Oriented toward the past
retrospective · nostalgic · antiquated · rear-view · regressive
forward-lookingshortsighted
Unable to see ahead
myopic · short-termist · improvident · heedless · incautious
forward-lookingconservative
Cautious about altering customs
regressive · reactionary · retrograde · traditionalist · hidebound
look, forward, looks, looking, lookout, looked, forwards, looker, lookers