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Definition of Foresee
1. Verb. Realize beforehand.
Generic synonyms: Know
Derivative terms: Anticipator, Prevision
2. Verb. Picture to oneself; imagine possible. "I cannot envision him as President"
Generic synonyms: Conceive Of, Envisage, Ideate, Imagine
Derivative terms: Envisioning
3. Verb. Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.
Generic synonyms: Act, Move
Derivative terms: Anticipator, Anticipatory, Forestalling
Definition of Foresee
1. v. t. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
2. v. i. To have or exercise foresight.
Definition of Foresee
1. Verb. To anticipate; to predict. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foresee
1. to see in advance [v -SAW, -SEEN, -SEEING, -SEES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foresee
Literary usage of Foresee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... for how was it possible they should foresee the necessity I was under of
writing the twenty-fifth chapter of my book before the eighteenth, &c. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He did not foresee the great improvements in production and transportation which,
a few years later, so greatly augmented the means of subsistence in every ..."
3. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Sad as his situation then appeared, it was nevertheless well that he could not
foresee the future; for in Napoleon's book oi destiny two NAPOLEON'S THRONE ..."
4. Junius. by Junius (1797)
"The ministry themselves, when they framed the speech, did not foresee that they
should ever accede to such an accommodation as they have since advised their ..."
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