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forcast

forcast verb: to cast away; reject. Also the alternative form of forecast.

Verb

forcast (third-person singular simple present forcasts, present participle forcasting, simple past and past participle forcast)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cast away; reject.

Also used as

forcast is also the alternative form of forecast.

forcast is also the misspelling of forecast.

Forms of forcast

third-person singular presentforcasts
present participleforcasting
past participleforcast
pastforcast

Origin of forcast

From Middle English forcasten (“to cast away, reject”). Cognate with Swedish förkasta (“to reject”). Cf. forcasten. By surface analysis, for- + cast.

From Middle English forcast, variant of forecast.

Questions about forcast

What does forcast mean?
Forcast means to cast away; reject.
What part of speech is forcast?
Forcast is a verb.
What is the past tense of forcast?
The past tense of forcast is forcast.

Words near forcast in the dictionary

  1. forc't
  2. forcarve
  3. forcarved
  4. forcarves
  5. forcarving
  6. forcast
  7. forcasted
  8. forcasten
  9. forcasting
  10. forcasts
  11. forcause

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forcast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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