foregone conclusion

Questions about foregone conclusion

What does foregone conclusion mean?

foregone conclusion means "an inevitable ending". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for foregone conclusion?

Close synonyms include matter of course, certainty, sure thing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foregone conclusion a common word?

foregone conclusion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.