'Foresee' definitions:
Definition of 'foresee'
(from WordNet)
verb
verb
Picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: envision, foresee]
verb
Definition of 'Foresee'
From: GCIDE
- Foresee \Fore*see"\, v. t. [AS. forese['o]n; fore + se['o]n to see. See See, v. t.]
- 1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. [1913 Webster]
- A prudent man foreseeth the evil. --Prov. xxii. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To provide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Foresee'
From: GCIDE
- Foresee \Fore*see"\, v. i. To have or exercise foresight. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'foresee'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anticipate,
- apprehend,
- approach,
- augur,
- await,
- be destined,
- be fated,
- be imminent,
- be to be,
- be to come,
- cast a horoscope,
- cast a nativity,
- come,
- come on,
- contemplate,
- descry,
- discern,
- divine,
- dope,
- dope out,
- dowse for water,
- draw near,
- draw on,
- dread,
- envisage,
- envision,
- espy,
- expect,
- face,
- forebode,
- forecast,
- foreglimpse,
- foreknow,
- forerun,
- forestall,
- foretaste,
- foretell,
- fortune-tell,
- get ahead of,
- go before,
- go off half-cocked,
- guess,
- hariolate,
- have in mind,
- hope,
- jump the gun,
- lie ahead,
- look ahead,
- look beyond,
- look for,
- look forward to,
- loom,
- make a prediction,
- make a prognosis,
- make a prophecy,
- near,
- perceive,
- picture,
- plan,
- plot,
- predict,
- prefigure,
- presage,
- presume,
- prevision,
- prognosticate,
- project,
- prophesy,
- read palms,
- read tea leaves,
- read the future,
- see,
- see ahead,
- see beforehand,
- soothsay,
- speculate,
- take for granted,
- tell fortunes,
- tell the future,
- think,
- threaten,
- vaticinate,
- visualize,
- win the start