Foresee vs Advise - What's the difference?
foresee | advise |
To anticipate; to predict.
* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
(obsolete) To provide.
* Francis Bacon
To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with (m) before the thing communicated.
To consider, to deliberate.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. VIII, ''The Election
(obsolete) To look at, watch; to see.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
As verbs the difference between foresee and advise
is that foresee is to anticipate; to predict while advise is to give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.foresee
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Verb
- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
See also
* forsee English irregular verbsadvise
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Alternative forms
* advize (obsolete) * avise * avizeVerb
(advis)- The dentist advised brushing three times a day.
- We were advised of the risk.
- The lawyer advised me to drop the case, since there was no chance of winning.
- accordingly. His Majesty, advising of it for a moment, orders that Samson be brought in with the other Twelve.
- when that villain he auiz'd , which late / Affrighted had the fairest Florimell , / Full of fiers fury, and indignant hate, / To him he turned