looking ahead
Considering future possibilities
Looking ahead means directing attention toward the future rather than the present or past.
It suggests planning, anticipation, or consideration of what's coming: Looking ahead, we expect profits to increase next quarter.
The phrase often introduces forward-thinking statements in business, weather forecasts, or personal planning: Looking ahead to retirement, she started saving early.
Belief about future outcomes
- excitementState of eager enthusiasm
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- eagernessIntense willingness to act
- enthusiasmIntense eager enjoyment
curiosity · yearning · longing · apprehension · trepidation · anxiety · foreboding · suspense
Forecast of coming events
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- trendDirection of change
scenario · horizon · vision · prescience · anticipatory · forward-thinking · proactive · preparedness
Arranging things in advance
- strategizingFormulating tactical approaches
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
roadmap · goal-setting · timelining · projecting · coordination · contingency · milestones · prioritizing
Forward movement or promotion
- innovationCreating something original
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- breakthroughsSudden significant advances
- futureTime still to come
technology · growth · development · momentum · improvement · transformation · change · opportunity
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
- excitementState of eager enthusiasm
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- eagernessIntense willingness to act
enthusiasm · curiosity · yearning · longing · apprehension · trepidation · anxiety · foreboding · suspense · optimism
prediction
Forecast of coming events
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
trend · scenario · horizon · vision · prescience · anticipatory · forward-thinking · proactive · preparedness · extrapolation
preparation
Arranging things in advance
- strategizingFormulating tactical approaches
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
budgeting · roadmap · goal-setting · timelining · projecting · coordination · contingency · milestones · prioritizing · charting
advancement
Forward movement or promotion
- innovationCreating something original
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- breakthroughsSudden significant advances
future · technology · growth · development · momentum · improvement · transformation · change · opportunity · potential
- forward wordsadvance, onward, progress, forth, forward thinking
- transitionstransition, blending, segue, fade, changeover
looking aheadlooking back
Recalling what happened before
reminiscing · retrospection · backward-looking · living in the past · hindsight
looking aheadliving in the moment
Awareness of present experience
short-sighted · shortsightedness · myopic · improvising · winging it
looking aheadruminating
Thinking deeply, repeatedly
dwelling · brooding · regretting · wallowing · rehashing
look, looking, looks, looked, looker, lookout, outlook, overlook, onlooker