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Forecast vs Forepast - What's the difference?

forecast | forepast |

As a verb forecast

is to estimate how something will be in the future.

As a noun forecast

is an estimation of a future condition.

As an adjective forepast is

(obsolete) that has passed; bygone.

forecast

English

(wikipedia forecast)

Verb

  • To estimate how something will be in the future.
    • to forecast the weather
    to forecast a storm
  • (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
  • * Milton
    • If it happen as I did forecast .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An estimation of a future condition.
  • A prediction of the weather.
  • :* What's the forecast for tomorrow?

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    forepast

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.8:
  • *:Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best /all forepast displeasures to repeale.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast .
  • *c.1605 , (William Shakespeare), All's Well That Ends Well , First Folio 1623:
  • *:Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.

    • Synonyms

    * (that has passed) bygone, foregone