Meaning

1 senses
  1. Able to be foreseen or anticipated.

    This project will not be finished in the foreseeable future.

    vorhersehbar, absehbar

    предви́димыйpredvídimyj, обозри́мыйobozrímyj

    capable of being anticipated

Examples

11 sentences
  1. This development was not foreseeable; it simply surprised us.

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  2. The language is not expected to die for the foreseeable future.

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  3. At the present moment, not all consequences of the scandal are foreseeable.

    deIm jetzigen Moment sind noch nicht alle Folgen des Skandals absehbar.

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  4. The crisis was foreseeable.

    deDiese Krise war vorhersehbar.

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  5. I don't think that Tom will find a girlfriend for himself in the foreseeable future.

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Translations

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Deutsch
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Origin

From foresee + -able.

From foresee + -able.

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Forms

more foreseeable, most foreseeable
Comparativemore foreseeable Lesson
Superlativemost foreseeable Lesson

regular

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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