forecast
pronunciation
How to pronounce forecast in British English:
UK [ˈfɔːkɑːst]
How to pronounce forecast in American English:
US [ˈfɔːrkæst]
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- Noun:
- a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
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- Verb:
- predict in advance
- judge to be probable
- indicate by signs
Word Origin
- forecast (v.)
- late 14c., "to scheme," from fore- "before" + casten in the sense of "contrive, plan, prepare" (late 14c.; see cast (v.)). Meaning "predict events" first attested late 15c. (cast (v.) "to perceive, notice" is from late 14c.). Related: Forecasting. Whether we are to say forecast or forecasted in the past tense & participle depends on whether we regard the verb or the noun as the original from which the other is formed; ... The verb is in fact recorded 150 years earlier than the noun, & we may therefore thankfully rid ourselves of the ugly forecasted; it may be hoped that we should do so even if history were against us, but this time it is kind. [Fowler, 1926]
- forecast (n.)
- early 15c., "forethought, prudence," probably from forecast (v.). Meaning "conjectured estimate of a future course" is from 1670s. A Middle English word for weather forecasting was aeromancy.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Economists had forecast spending would rise 0.3 percent .
- 2. The weather forecast said horrible weather was coming .
- 3. The forecast is close to becoming received wisdom .
- 4. South sudan gained its independence as forecast .
- 5. What is your economic forecast ?