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forecasted

forecasted is the simple past and past participle of forecast.

Meaning of forecast

Verb

forecast (third-person singular simple present forecasts, present participle forecasting, simple past and past participle forecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) forecasted)

  1. To estimate how something will be in the future.
    • to forecast the weather, or a storm
  2. To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
  3. (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
    • And, if it happen as I did forecaſt, / The dainteſt diſhes ſhall be ſerv'd up laſt.1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 64

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Adjective

forecasted (not comparable)

  1. That has been forecast
    • The forecasted storm arrived on time.

Words formed from forecasted

Questions about forecasted

What does forecasted mean?
Forecasted means that has been forecast.
What is forecasted the simple past and past participle of?
Forecasted is the simple past and past participle of forecast.
What part of speech is forecasted?
Forecasted is an adjective.

Words near forecasted in the dictionary

  1. forecast lead time
  2. forecast lead times
  3. forecastabilities
  4. forecastability
  5. forecastable
  6. forecasted
  7. forecaster
  8. forecasters
  9. forecastest
  10. forecasteth
  11. forecasting

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