Word Meanings - FORESEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORESEE)

• Expect
• Anticipate
• await
• forecast
• forebode
• wait for
• rely on
• look for
• foresee

Related words: (words related to FORESEE)

• 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.
• 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
• FORECASTER
  One who forecast. Johnson.
• EXPECT
  1. To wait for; to await. Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak. 2. To look for ; to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look
• EXPECTORANT
  Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.
• 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
• EXPECTANT
  Waiting in expectation; looking for;
• EXPECTANCE; EXPECTANCY
  1. The act of expecting ; expectation. Milton. 2. That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy , one the possession of which
• EXPECTABLE
  That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.
• EXPECTORATIVE
  See HARVEY
• EXPECTORATE
  To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• EXPECTIVE
  Expectative. Shipley.
• AWAIT
  1. To watch for; to look out for. 2. To wait on, serve, or attend. 3. To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton. 4. To be in store for; to be ready
• FORESEEN
  , or p. p. Provided; in case that; on condition that. One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.
• EXPECTER
  One who expects.
• EXPECTORATION
  1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting. 2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
• FOREBODE
  1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation,
• EXPECTATIVE
  Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.
• 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.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• INEXPECTED
  Unexpected.
• PREEXPECTATION
  Previous expectation.
• INEXPECTEDLY
  Unexpectedly.
• INEXPECTANT
  Not expectant. C. Bronté.