Word Meanings - FORECAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24. 2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for. It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to

Additional info about word: FORECAST

1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24. 2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for. It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORECAST)

• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• expect
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Anticipation
• Prevention
• expectation
• forestallment
• awaiting
• preoccupation
• preconception
• foresight
• forethought
• prelibation
• preclusion
• pregustation
• antepast
• provision
• Expect
• await
• forebode
• wait for
• rely on
• look for
• foresee
• Foresee
• Predict
• anticipate
• foretell
• foreknow
• divine
• Presentiment
• Foreboding
• prescience
• anticipation

Related words: (words related to FORECAST)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• INTERCEPTER
  One who, or that which, intercepts. Shak.
• PRECONCEPTION
  The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• INEXPECTED
  Unexpected.