forward-looking

1. 1.

   ahead of the times

   “the advanced teaching methods”

   “had advanced views on the subject”

   “a forward-looking corporation”

   “is British industry innovative enough?”

   Synonymsadvancedinnovativemodern

   Similarprogressive

Questions about forward-looking

What does forward-looking mean?

forward-looking means "ahead of the times".

How many syllables are in forward-looking?

forward-looking has 4 syllables: for-ward--loo-king. The stress falls on "ward-".

What is another word for forward-looking?

Close synonyms include advanced, innovative, modern. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forward-looking a common word?

forward-looking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.