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foreseeable

/fɔːˈsiː.ə.bəl/US/fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/

foreseeable adjective: able to be foreseen or anticipated.

Adjective

foreseeable (comparative more foreseeable, superlative most foreseeable)

  1. Able to be foreseen or anticipated.
    • This project will not be finished in the foreseeable future.
    • “At current and foreseeable oil prices, the industry’s appetite to drill in ANWR will be exceptionally low and quite possibly will be zero,” Pavel Molchanov, energy analyst at Raymond James, told CNN Business.2020 August 18, Matt Egan, “It’s a bizarre time for Trump to open Alaska’s Arctic refuge up to oil drilling”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023

foreseeable meaning in Malayalam

foreseeable in Malayalam

മുൻകൂട്ടി കാണാവുന്ന

Examples of foreseeable in a sentence

  • We'll have to make do with this for the foreseeable.
  • Now that quarantine is just how we will live for the foreseeable future, how do you disconnect?
  • For projects that are just ramping up, a reasonable estimate should be made for the foreseeable future.

All 16 example sentences with foreseeable

Forms of foreseeable

comparativemore foreseeable
superlativemost foreseeable
alternative formforseeable

Origin of foreseeable

From foresee + -able.

Words formed from foreseeable

Questions about foreseeable

What does foreseeable mean?
Foreseeable means able to be foreseen or anticipated.
What is foreseeable in Malayalam?
Foreseeable in Malayalam is മുൻകൂട്ടി കാണാവുന്ന. See Foreseeable meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is foreseeable?
Foreseeable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce foreseeable?
Foreseeable is pronounced /fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/ (US).

Words near foreseeable in the dictionary

  1. forescript
  2. forescripts
  3. foresee
  4. foreseeabilities
  5. foreseeability
  6. foreseeable
  7. foreseeableness
  8. foreseeably
  9. foreseeing
  10. foreseeingly
  11. foreseeings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreseeable (page history and authors); foreseeable (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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