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forecast

[fawr-kast, -kahst, fohr-]
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verb (used with object), fore·cast or fore·cast·ed, fore·cast·ing.
  1. to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  2. to serve as a prediction of; foreshadow.
  3. to contrive or plan beforehand; prearrange.
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verb (used without object), fore·cast or fore·cast·ed, fore·cast·ing.
  1. to conjecture beforehand; make a prediction.
  2. to plan or arrange beforehand.
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noun
  1. a prediction, especially as to the weather.
  2. a conjecture as to something in the future.
  3. the act, practice, or faculty of forecasting.
  4. Archaic. foresight in planning.
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Origin of forecast

1350–1400; Middle English (noun) plan. See fore-, cast
Related formsfore·cast·a·ble, adjectivefore·cast·er, nounre·fore·cast, verb (used with object), re·fore·cast or re·fore·cast·ed, re·fore·cast·ing.un·fore·cast, adjectiveun·fore·cast·ed, adjective

Synonyms

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1. foretell, anticipate. 3. project. 4, 7. guess, estimate. 9. forethought, prescience.

Synonym study

1. See predict.
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Examples from the Web for forecasted

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Historical Examples

  • If I had forecasted this asking I would have asked it myself.

    Seven Short Plays

    Lady Gregory

  • Just as he had forecasted, just so had matters shaped themselves.

    The Wolf Cub

    Patrick Casey

  • It was being run just as Billy had forecasted; there was nothing in this to shake his faith.

    Bulldog Carney

    W. A. Fraser

  • I have already indicated his views, most emphatically expressed and forecasted.

    Twelve Men

    Theodore Dreiser

  • In the case of an ordinary criminal, Heldon Foyle might have forecasted what would happen with a fair degree of certainty.

    The Grell Mystery

    Frank Froest

British Dictionary definitions for forecasted

forecast

verb -casts, -casting, -cast or -casted
  1. to predict or calculate (weather, events, etc), in advance
  2. (tr) to serve as an early indication of
  3. (tr) to plan in advance
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noun
  1. a statement of probable future weather conditions calculated from meteorological data
  2. a prophecy or prediction
  3. the practice or power of forecasting
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Derived Formsforecaster, noun
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Word Origin and History for forecasted

forecast

v.

late 14c., "to scheme," from fore- "before" + casten "contrive." Meaning "predict events" first attested late 15c. Related: Forecasted; forecasting.

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forecast

n.

early 15c., probably from forecast (v.); earliest sense was "forethought, prudence;" meaning "conjectured estimate of a future course" is from 1670s. A Middle English word for weather forecasting was aeromancy.

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