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presentiment, omen, sign, portent, intimation, forewarning,<br />

presage, advance word: I had a strange foreboding <strong>of</strong> horror as<br />

I entered the room.<br />

forecast v. 1 predict, foretell, prophesy, prognosticate, foresee,<br />

augur, presage, vaticinate, anticipate; forewarn, calculate:<br />

Seers forecast coming events; meteorologists forecast the<br />

weather.<br />

--n. 2 prediction, prophecy, prognosis, prognostication,<br />

foresight, augury, vaticination, anticipation; forewarning,<br />

calculation: Have you heard the weather forecast for tomorrow?<br />

foregoing adj. preceding, above, former, previous, precedent, prior,<br />

antecedent; earlier, preliminary, anterior; aforementioned,<br />

aforesaid: <strong>The</strong> foregoing paragraph set forth the principles.<br />

foregone adj. Usually in foregone conclusion. assumed, established,<br />

pre-established, predetermined, fixed, inevitable, set,<br />

accepted, cut and dried: His incarceration for the crime was a<br />

foregone conclusion.<br />

foreign adj. 1 alien, imported, non-native; overseas, distant,<br />

tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transpacific: Duty is<br />

payable on foreign goods. We holiday in a different foreign<br />

country each year. 2 strange, outlandish, exotic, unfamiliar,<br />

peculiar, odd, curious: She regards anything except beans and<br />

toast as foreign food. 3 unknown, unfamiliar, strange,<br />

inappropriate, unrelated, unconnected, unassimilable, remote,<br />

extrinsic, extraneous: <strong>The</strong>ir philosophy is completely foreign<br />

to my way <strong>of</strong> thinking.<br />

foreigner n. alien, non-native, immigrant, newcomer, new arrival,<br />

outsider, outlander, stranger: <strong>The</strong> word xenophobia means 'dread<br />

<strong>of</strong> foreigners'.<br />

foreman n. superintendent, manager, boss, supervisor, overseer, Brit<br />

shopwalker, US floor-walker, Colloq super, Brit gaffer, US straw<br />

boss: <strong>The</strong> foreman insists we use the time clocks.<br />

foremost adj. 1 first, primary, prime, leading, pre-eminent, supreme;<br />

prominent, notable, noteworthy, noted, chief, paramount, main,<br />

best, superior: She is one <strong>of</strong> the foremost eye surgeons in her

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