foresee

Other forms of foresee

past tense or participle

foresaw

past tense or participle

foreseen

present participle

foreseeing·

third person

foresees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foresee

What does foresee mean?

foresee means "realize beforehand". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foresee?

foresee has 2 syllables: fore-see. The stress falls on "see". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈsi/.

What is another word for foresee?

Close synonyms include anticipate, previse, foreknow, envision, anticipate. 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 foresee a common word?

foresee is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with foresee?

37 words rhyme with foresee. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.