Forecast Definition

fôrkăst
forecasted, forecasting, forecasts
verb
forecasted, forecasting, forecasts
To foresee.
Webster's New World
To make a forecast.
Webster's New World
To estimate or calculate in advance; predict or seek to predict (weather, business conditions, etc.)
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To serve as a prediction or prophecy of.
Webster's New World

To estimate how something will be in the future.

To forecast the weather.
To forecast a storm.
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noun
forecasts
Foresight; forethought.
Webster's New World
A prediction, as of weather conditions.
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Other Word Forms of Forecast

Noun

Singular:
forecast
Plural:
forecasts

Origin of Forecast

  • Middle English forecasten to plan beforehand fore- fore- casten to throw, calculate, prepare cast

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Forecast Sentence Examples

  • Spain presented a forecast of the anarchy of Poland.

  • The national weather forecast on television was calling for light snow in Arkansas.

  • This forecast was shown by Bidwell to be well founded.

  • I know this is a controversial forecast, and to many people a very depressing one, but I think it is both inevitable and good.

  • Yet his rationale of the tides in De Motibus Stellae is not only memorable as an astonishing forecast of the principle of reciprocal attraction in the proportion of mass, but for its bold extension to the earth of the lunar sphere of influence.

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Words Starting With

FFOFOR

Words Ending With

TSTAST

Unscrambles

forecast

Words Starting With F and Ending With T

Starts With F & Ends With TStarts With FO & Ends With TStarts With F & Ends With ST

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With F8 Letter Words Ending With T