The aim of science is, as has often been said, to foresee, not to understand.
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Foresee
//fɔɹˈsi//
Synonyms for "foresee" (100 found)
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Related words (50)
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2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 37 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- voorsien verb (to anticipate)
Arabic
1 entries- تَوَقَّعَ verb (to anticipate)
Armenian
1 entries- կանխատեսել verb (to anticipate)
Aromanian
2 entries- prived verb (to anticipate)
- pruved verb (to anticipate)
Bulgarian
2 entries- предвиждам verb (to anticipate)
- предугаждам verb (to anticipate)
Catalan
2 entries- preveure verb (to anticipate)
- pronosticar verb (to anticipate)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 預知 /预知 verb (to anticipate)
- 預見 /预见 verb (to anticipate)
Czech
1 entries- předvídat verb (to anticipate)
Danish
1 entries- forudse verb (to anticipate)
Dutch
1 entries- voorzien verb (to anticipate)
Esperanto
1 entries- antaŭvidi verb (to anticipate)
Finnish
3 entries- aavistaa verb (to anticipate)
- ennustaa verb (to anticipate)
- nähdä ennalta verb (to anticipate)
French
2 entries- anticiper verb (to anticipate)
- prévoir verb (to anticipate)
Galician
1 entries- prever verb (to anticipate)
German
2 entries- voraussehen verb (to anticipate)
- vorhersehen verb (to anticipate)
Hebrew
1 entries- צִפָּה verb (to anticipate)
Hungarian
1 entries- előre lát verb (to anticipate)
Icelandic
1 entries- sjá fyrir verb (to anticipate)
Indonesian
1 entries- memperkirakan verb (to anticipate)
Italian
1 entries- prevedere verb (to anticipate)
Japanese
4 entries- 予測する verb (to anticipate)
- 予知する verb (to anticipate)
- 予見する verb (to anticipate)
- 見越す verb (to anticipate)
Latin
4 entries- dīvīnō verb (to anticipate)
- praevideō verb (to anticipate)
- prospicio verb (to anticipate)
- prōvideō verb (to anticipate)
Latvian
1 entries- paredzēt verb (to anticipate)
Macedonian
1 entries- предви́дува verb (to anticipate)
Māori
2 entries- matakite verb (to anticipate)
- matapae verb (to anticipate)
Norwegian
1 entries- forutse verb (to anticipate)
Polish
1 entries- przewidywać verb (to anticipate)
Portuguese
2 entries- prever verb (to anticipate)
- prognosticar verb (to anticipate)
Quechua
1 entries- t'ituy verb (to anticipate)
Romanian
2 entries- anticipa verb (to anticipate)
- prevedea verb (to anticipate)
Russian
4 entries- предви́деть verb (to anticipate)
- предвосхи́тить verb (to anticipate)
- предвосхища́ть verb (to anticipate)
- предска́зывать verb (to anticipate)
Slovak
1 entries- Predvídať verb (to anticipate)
Slovene
3 entries- predvideti verb (to anticipate)
- predvidevati verb (to anticipate)
- slutiti verb (to anticipate)
Spanish
3 entries- antever verb (to anticipate)
- prever verb (to anticipate)
- pronosticar verb (to anticipate)
Swedish
1 entries- förutse verb (to anticipate)
Turkish
1 entries- öngörmek verb (to anticipate)
Volapük
1 entries- büologön verb (to anticipate)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Nobody can foresee what'll happen.
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I didn't foresee this turn of events.
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Nobody can foresee when the war will end.
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