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Forecast vs Foresaw - What's the difference?

forecast | foresaw |

As verbs the difference between forecast and foresaw

is that forecast is to estimate how something will be in the future while foresaw is (foresee).

As a noun forecast

is an estimation of a future condition.

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?
  • foresaw

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (foresee)
  • Anagrams

    *

    foresee

    English

    Verb

  • To anticipate; to predict.
  • * 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
  • "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
  • A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
  • (obsolete) To provide.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs