When you foresee something, you predict or realistically envision it happening. Did you foresee your team winning the playoffs, or were you surprised?
To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
Verb
realize beforehand
Verb
picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President"
Verb
act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
v. t.
To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
v. t.
To provide.
v. i.
To have or exercise foresight.
Foresee
A prudent man foreseeth the evil.2.
Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
Foresee
To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
To have or exercise foresight.
Usage Examples
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Other Usage ExamplesMan has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
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