Meaning & use
foreseeable
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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