Definitions for forecast

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forecast fore·cast

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

IPA: /ˈfɔrˌkæst, -ˌkɑst, ˈfoʊr-/

Forecast is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 527 anagrams from letters in forecast (aceforst).

Definitions for forecast

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 forecast

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

Examples for forecast

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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