Foreseeable vs Next - What's the difference?
foreseeable | next |
able to be foreseen or anticipated
Following in a sequence.
Being closer to the present location than all other items.
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, title= Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
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, title= (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
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The one immediately following the current or most recent one
Closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
On the first subsequent occasion,
On the side of; next to.
* 1900 , The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices , translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
The one that follows after this one.
As adjectives the difference between foreseeable and next
is that foreseeable is able to be foreseen or anticipated while next is following in a sequence.As a determiner next is
the one immediately following the current or most recent one.As an adverb next is
in a time, place or sequence closest or following.As a preposition next is
on the side of; next to.As a noun next is
the one that follows after this one.foreseeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This dictionary will be nowhere near complete in the foreseeable future.
Derived terms
* foreseeably * unforeseeablenext
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal) * (l) (Scotland)Adjective
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Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* previous * (closest to seven days ahead) last, thisDeterminer
(en determiner)- Next week would be a good time to meet.
- I'll know better next time.
- The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.
Adverb
(-)- They live in the next closest house.
- It's the next best thing to ice cream.
- Next , we stripped off the old paint.
- Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next ?
- When we next meet, you'll be married.
Antonyms
* previouslyPreposition
(English prepositions)- The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians .
Noun
(-)- ''Next , please, don't hold up the queue!