Synonyms for foresee
fɔrˈsi, foʊr-fore·see

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1. foresee

   Synonyms:
   predict, anticipate, foretell, forecast, foreknow, forebode, divine

   Antonyms:
   reflect, remember, recollect, recurl

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1. anticipate, previse, foreknow, foreseeverb

   realize beforehand

   Synonyms:
   predict, counter, foreknow, previse, look for, forewarn, forestall, envision, call, prognosticate, look to, anticipate, foretell, forebode, expect, promise

2. envision, foreseeverb

   picture to oneself; imagine possible

   "I cannot envision him as President"

   Synonyms:
   see, visualise, fancy, anticipate, previse, foreknow, figure, counter, image, envision, forestall, project, picture, visualize

3. anticipate, foresee, forestall, counterverb

   act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

   Synonyms:
   predict, counter, foreknow, previse, look for, preclude, forestall, prevent, foreclose, forbid, envision, call, prognosticate, look to, anticipate, foretell, forebode, expect, promise

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1. • Act
   • Imagine
   • Know

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1. foreseeverb

   Synonyms:
   foreknow, forecast, forebode, see beforehand, have prescience of, be prescient of

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1. List of paraphrases for "foresee":

   predict, anticipate, envisage, forecast

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1. Kathleen Norris:

   Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

2. Jim Warren:

   We don’t foresee the market tanking, we foresee steady growth, after all the hype is gone, we are still living here. We’re going to have to figure it out because this is our home.

3. Dame Rebecca West:

   Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

4. Albert Einstein:

   Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

5. President Barack Obama:

   I don't foresee any legislative action being taken in this Congress. And I don't foresee any real action being taken until the American public feels a sufficient sense of urgency and they say to themselves, 'This is not normal, this is something that we can change, and we're going to change it,'.