Definitions for forecasts

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forecasts fore·cast

Spelling: [fawr-kast, -kahst, fohr-]

IPA: /ˈfɔrˌkæst, -ˌkɑst, ˈfoʊr-/

Forecasts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 652 anagrams from letters in forecasts (aceforsst).

Definitions for forecasts

verb (used with object)

1. to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance:
2. to serve as a prediction of; foreshadow.
3. to contrive or plan beforehand; prearrange.

verb (used without object)

1. to conjecture beforehand; make a prediction.
2. to plan or arrange beforehand.

noun

1. a prediction, especially as to the weather.
2. a conjecture as to something in the future.
3. the act, practice, or faculty of forecasting.
4. Archaic. foresight in planning.

Origin of forecasts

1350-1400; Middle English (noun) plan. See fore-, cast

Examples for forecasts

By her own desire she passed it quietly, and had leisure to review and to forecast.

But I knew 'twas Beriah's forecast or he wouldn't have been so sure of it.

But just as important, it's a forecast of the kind of warfare that American commandos anticipate they will be fighting.

They forecast an endless and ashen winter for the country that began as a brilliant idea.

This uncertainty explains why the forecast, while optimistic, is highly variable.

None, to my knowledge, had forecast the event, and now they would have to live with their lack of success.

Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

This forecast may seem to be of a highly conjectural nature.

Was there anything in the forecast of the night that made him falter?

A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.