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presentiment, omen, sign, portent, intimation, forewarning,
presage, advance word: I had a strange foreboding of horror as
I entered the room.
forecast v. 1 predict, foretell, prophesy, prognosticate, foresee,
augur, presage, vaticinate, anticipate; forewarn, calculate:
Seers forecast coming events; meteorologists forecast the
weather.
--n. 2 prediction, prophecy, prognosis, prognostication,
foresight, augury, vaticination, anticipation; forewarning,
calculation: Have you heard the weather forecast for tomorrow?
foregoing adj. preceding, above, former, previous, precedent, prior,
antecedent; earlier, preliminary, anterior; aforementioned,
aforesaid: The foregoing paragraph set forth the principles.
foregone adj. Usually in foregone conclusion. assumed, established,
pre-established, predetermined, fixed, inevitable, set,
accepted, cut and dried: His incarceration for the crime was a
foregone conclusion.
foreign adj. 1 alien, imported, non-native; overseas, distant,
tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transpacific: Duty is
payable on foreign goods. We holiday in a different foreign
country each year. 2 strange, outlandish, exotic, unfamiliar,
peculiar, odd, curious: She regards anything except beans and
toast as foreign food. 3 unknown, unfamiliar, strange,
inappropriate, unrelated, unconnected, unassimilable, remote,
extrinsic, extraneous: Their philosophy is completely foreign
to my way of thinking.
foreigner n. alien, non-native, immigrant, newcomer, new arrival,
outsider, outlander, stranger: The word xenophobia means 'dread
of foreigners'.
foreman n. superintendent, manager, boss, supervisor, overseer, Brit
shopwalker, US floor-walker, Colloq super, Brit gaffer, US straw
boss: The foreman insists we use the time clocks.
foremost adj. 1 first, primary, prime, leading, pre-eminent, supreme;
prominent, notable, noteworthy, noted, chief, paramount, main,
best, superior: She is one of the foremost eye surgeons in her