foresee

Verb

Meaning

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.

To provide.

To have or exercise foresight.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

counter anticipate forestall foreknow previse envision see provide plan augur consider picture fear hope divine

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Antonyms

decline mistake ignore forget neglect confuse

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Hypernyms

move act know imagine envisage ideate

Derivatives

foresaw foreseen

Examples

It is easy to see, hard to foresee. Benjamin Franklin

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. Marcus Aurelius

He who begins a conversation does not foresee the end. Mauritania Proverb

Could a man foresee events he would never be poor. French Proverb

If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

forescreen forescribed forescript foreseeability foreseeable foreseeable circumstance