foresee

English

Etymology

From Middle English foreseen, forseen, from Old English foresēon; equivalent to fore- +‎ see. Similar formations in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen, Latin prōvideō.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /fɔɹˈsi/
• IPA^(key): /fɔːˈsiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Verb

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

1. To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
   • Template:RQ:Authorized Version
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 8:

     Ariel. My Maſter through his Art foreſees the danger / That you (his friend) are in, and ſends me forth / (For elſe his proiect dies) to keepe them liuing.

   • 1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter:

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

2. (obsolete) To provide.
   • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

Translations

to anticipate

• Arabic: تَوَقَّعَ (tawaqqaʕa)
• Armenian: կանխատեսել (hy) (kanxatesel)
• Aromanian: prived, pruved
• Bulgarian: предвиждам (bg) (predviždam), предугаждам (predugaždam)
• Catalan: preveure (ca), pronosticar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預知／预知 (zh) (yùzhī), 预知 (zh) (yùzhī), 預見／预见 (zh) (yùjiàn), 预见 (zh) (yùjiàn)

• Czech: předvídat (cs)
• Danish: forudse (da)
• Dutch: voorzien (nl)
• Esperanto: antaŭvidi
• Finnish: aavistaa (fi), nähdä ennalta, ennustaa (fi)
• French: prévoir (fr), anticiper (fr)
• Galician: prever
• German: vorhersehen (de), voraussehen (de)
• Hebrew: לצפות
• Hungarian: előre lát (hu)
• Icelandic: sjá fyrir
• Indonesian: memperkirakan (id)
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• Italian: prevedere (it)
• Japanese: 予見する (ja) (よけんする, yoken suru), 予測する (ja) (よそくする, yosoku suru), 見越す (みこす, mikosu), 予知する (ja) (よちする, yochi suru)
• Latin: divinō, praevideō, prōvideō, prospicio
• Macedonian: предви́дува (predvíduva)
• Maori: matakite, matapae
• Norwegian: forutse (no)
• Polish: przewidywać (pl)
• Portuguese: prever (pt), prognosticar (pt)
• Quechua: t'ituy
• Romanian: prevedea (ro), anticipa (ro)
• Russian: предви́деть (ru) impf (predvídetʹ), предвосхища́ть (ru) impf (predvosxiščátʹ), предвосхи́тить (ru) pf (predvosxítitʹ), предска́зывать (ru) impf (predskázyvatʹ), предсказа́ть (ru) pf (predskazátʹ), предусма́тривать (ru) impf (predusmátrivatʹ), предусмотре́ть (ru) pf (predusmotrétʹ)
• Slovak: Predvídať
• Slovene: predvidevati, predvideti pf, slutiti
• Spanish: pronosticar (es), prever (es)
• Swedish: förutse (sv)
• Volapük: büologön (vo)

See also

• forsee
• unforeseen