Meaning & use

foreseeable

adjective·Academic

Able to be predicted or anticipated as likely to happen.

See it in a sentence

Prices are expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future.

Given the current trend, a shortage of workers seems entirely foreseeable.

A note on using this word

Foreseeable is most often used in the phrase the foreseeable future, meaning as far ahead as one can reasonably predict.

Words with a similar meaning

predictableexpected

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Words with an opposite meaning

unforeseeable

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