Another word for forecast
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Verb
To tell about or make known (future events) in advance, especially by means of special knowledge or inference
- An undertaking requiring concerted effort:
- An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.
- A plan or proposal for accomplishing something.
- To predict according to present indications or signs; foretell.
- To foreshadow; portend:
- To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge:
- To foretell something.
- To tell of or indicate beforehand; predict.
- To say in a loud voice; announce:
- To demand or ask for the presence of:
- To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke:
See also:To give an indication of something in advance
- To predict according to present indications or signs; foretell.
- To foreshadow; portend:
- An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
- A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
- Prophetic significance or meaning.
- To suggest, indicate, or represent by an antecedent form or model; presage or foreshadow:
- To imagine or picture to oneself in advance.
- To serve as an omen or a warning of; presage:
- To indicate by prediction; forecast:
- To indicate or give warning of beforehand; presage.
- An advance sign; a warning.
- To tell of or indicate beforehand; predict.
- To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage:
- To run before.
- To precede as an indication of what is to follow; foreshadow.
- To prevent from arriving or occurring; forestall.
- To be an omen of:
- To predict; foretell.
- To be an omen; portend:
- One of a group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and interpreting signs and omens.
- A seer or prophet; a soothsayer.
- To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell.
- To give a sketchy outline of.
- To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow.
- To disclose partially or guardedly.
Noun
The act of predicting
- The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
- A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface:
- A plan for an anticipated course of action:
- A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
- A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease.
- The likelihood of recovery from a disease.
- A forecast or prediction:
- The act of predicting.
- Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy.
- A point of view; an attitude:
- Expectation for the future:
- A place where something can be viewed.
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Another word for forecast
Noun
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- The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
- A sign of something coming; an omen:
- Prediction, prophecy.
- The act, process, or result of calculating.
- An estimate based on probabilities.
- Careful, often cunning estimation and planning of likely outcomes, especially to advance one's own interests.
- Present participle of foretell.
- prediction
- An inspired utterance of a prophet, viewed as a revelation of divine will.
- A prediction of the future, made under divine inspiration.
- Such an inspired message or prediction transmitted orally or in writing.
- Opinion or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork.
- An opinion or conclusion based on guesswork:
- To judge or conclude by conjecture; guess:
- To indicate or give warning of beforehand; presage.
- An advance sign; a warning.
- The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.
- An inspired guess or presentiment.
- Something that has been divined.
- An itemized summary of estimated or intended expenditures for a given period along with proposals for financing them:
- A systematic plan for the expenditure of a usually fixed resource, such as money or time, during a given period:
- The total sum of money allocated for a particular purpose or period of time:
- To calculate approximately (the amount, extent, magnitude, position, or value of something).
- To form an opinion about; evaluate:
- A tentative evaluation or rough calculation, as of worth, quantity, or size:
- To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
- To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
- To form a correct estimate or conjecture of:
- A point of view; an attitude:
- Expectation for the future:
- A place where something can be viewed.
- The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
- A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface:
- A plan for an anticipated course of action:
- A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease.
- The likelihood of recovery from a disease.
- A forecast or prediction:
- A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
- The act of predicting.
- Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy.
Antonyms:
Verb
To foresee
- To reveal by divine inspiration.
- To predict the future with certainty.
- To prefigure or foreshadow:
- One of a group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and interpreting signs and omens.
- A seer or prophet; a soothsayer.
- To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell.
- Having the nature of or being a deity.
- Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity:
- Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.
See also:To predict
- To say in a loud voice; announce:
- To demand or ask for the presence of:
- To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke:
- (idiomatic) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- (idiomatic) To calculate.
- To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
- To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
- To form a correct estimate or conjecture of:
- The basis or motive for an action, decision, or conviction:
- A declaration made to explain or justify action, decision, or conviction:
- A fact or cause that explains why something exists or has occurred:
- To conclude from evidence or by reasoning:
- To involve by logical necessity; entail:
- To indicate indirectly; imply.
- To serve as an omen or a warning of; presage:
- To indicate by prediction; forecast:
- An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
- A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
- Prophetic significance or meaning.
- To determine, decide, or establish in advance:
- To influence or sway toward an action or opinion; predispose.
- To determine or decide something in advance.
- To establish or ascertain definitely, as after consideration, investigation, or calculation:
- To give direction to by making decisions; devise or control:
- To decide or settle (a dispute, for example) conclusively and authoritatively.
- To ascertain by computation; reckon:
- To make an estimate of; evaluate:
- To make for a deliberate purpose; design:
- The distance between the two rails of a railroad.
- The distance between two wheels on an axle.
- The interior diameter of a shotgun barrel as determined by the number of lead balls of a size exactly fitting the barrel that are required to make one pound. Often used in combination:
- An undertaking requiring concerted effort:
- An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.
- A plan or proposal for accomplishing something.
- To reveal by divine inspiration.
- To predict the future with certainty.
- To prefigure or foreshadow:
- To predict according to present indications or signs; foretell.
- To foreshadow; portend:
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