Foresee
[fɔː'siː] or [fɔr'si]
Definition
(v. t.) To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To provide.
(v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Foreknow, forecast, forebode, see beforehand, have prescience of, be prescient of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Predict, anticipate, foretell, forecast, foreknow, forebode, divine
ANT:Reflect, remember, recollect, recurl
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Definition
v.t. or v.i. to see or know beforehand.—p.adj. Foresee′ing.—adv. Foresee′ingly.
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Examples
- I foresee trouble for that girl--perhaps want of motherly care--and I only wish you to be ready to be a friend to her, in case she needs one. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I foresee what will happen, and yet, when it does, I think I shall go mad! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Already I foresee a favourable answer to my inquiries. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I foresee there is money to be made out of this, besides taking that fellow down a peg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Left to myself, I strove with painful intensity to divine the motive of his request and foresee the events of the coming day. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What their conduct may be when they grow up and enter the important scenes of life, I shall not live to _see_, and I cannot _foresee_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And the natural consequence is, as anybody but a baby might have foreseen, that he prowls and wanders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was a reproach in the touch so addressed to him that she had not foreseen, or she would have withheld her hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The foreboders of evil exclaimed immediately that they had foreseen something of the kind; and observed it was a pity so much expense had been incurred for nothing! Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Luckily I had foreseen the risk I was taking---- So that you really didn't care----? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He foresaw where they were going as soon as their feet touched the staircase. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was a shrewd man, and therefore, when he withdrew from that trade in 1767, it is probable that he foresaw that he was on the track of something better. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I foresaw your visit this afternoon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Elizabeth could not refuse, though she foresaw little pleasure in the visit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He foresaw the employment of air craft in war. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And then I think that what he foresaw happened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When he foresees that provisions are likely to run short, he puts them upon short allowance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- From the tone of voice the dog infers his masters anger, and foresees his own punishment. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The sovereign feels that he must provide for such exigencies by saving, because he foresees the absolute impossibility of borrowing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He endeavours to buy them up when he foresees that their price is likely to rise, and to sell them when it is likely to fall. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You must concede that there are abuses, Hawley, said Mr. Hackbutt, foreseeing some political disagreement with his family lawyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was no foreseeing at that time whether he would be absent months or years. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was he who, foreseeing that questions might be asked regarding the disposal of the money, forced me to account for it as I did. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Happily he was not farther from approving matrimony than from foreseeing it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She said this with such great significance that Ada and I glanced at one another, foreseeing something more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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