ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsFforesee
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foresee
Meaning: to know or realize something will happen before it does
foresee in a sentence
How foresee is used in real sentences:
No one could foresee how quickly the small startup would become successful.
Nobody had foreseen that the small coding error would eventually crash the entire company's website for hours.
“I could foresee the result: Eli would miss his presentation, and everyone would laugh again.”
— from the passage The Locker Choice
Synonyms for foresee
Other words for foresee — predict, anticipate and foretell — carry the same meaning.
- predict
- anticipate
- foretell
Where it comes from
From Old English foreseon 'to see beforehand'
Memory hook
FORESEE — 'FORE' + 'SEE' means to see ahead of time, like a golfer's warning shout.