Foreseeable vs Probable - What's the difference?
foreseeable | probable |
able to be foreseen or anticipated
Likely or most likely to be true.
Likely to happen.
Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
(obsolete) Capable of being proved.
As adjectives the difference between foreseeable and probable
is that foreseeable is able to be foreseen or anticipated while probable is likely or most likely to be true.foreseeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This dictionary will be nowhere near complete in the foreseeable future.
Derived terms
* foreseeably * unforeseeableprobable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's probable that it will rain tomorrow.
- The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.
- With all the support we have, success is looking probable .
- probable''' evidence; '''probable presumption
- (Blackstone)
