foresee

English

Pronunciation

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Pronunciation

• X-SAMPA: /fo:"si:/
• IPA: /foːˈsiː/

  Rhymes: -iː

Verb

foresee (third-person singular simple present foresees, present participle foreseeing, simple past foresaw, past participle foreseen)

1. To anticipate; to predict.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter

   "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."

   • Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3

     A prudent man foreseeth the evil.

2. (obsolete) To provide.
   • Francis Bacon

     Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

Translations

to anticipate

• Catalan: pronosticar (ca)
• Czech: předvídat (cs)
• Danish: forudse (da)
• Dutch: voorzien (nl)
• Esperanto: antaŭvidi (eo)
• Finnish: aavistaa (fi), nähdä ennalta (fi), ennustaa (fi)
• French: prévoir (fr), anticiper (fr)
• German: vorhersehen (de)
• Hebrew: לצפות (he)
• Icelandic: sjá fyrir (is)
• Indonesian: memperkirakan (id)

• Italian: prevedere (it)
• Japanese: 予見する (よけんする), 予測する (よそくする, yosoku-suru)
• Latin: divinō (la)
• Macedonian: предвидува (mk) (predvíduva)
• Norwegian: forutse (no)
• Polish: przewidywać (pl)
• Portuguese: prever (pt), prognosticar (pt)
• Russian: предвидеть (ru) (predvidetʹ), предвосхищать (ru) (predvosxiščatʹ), предсказывать (ru) (predskazyvatʹ)
• Spanish: pronosticar (es), prever (es)
• Swedish: förutse (sv)
• Volapük: büologön (vo)

See also

• forsee