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adj anticipated

adjective. expected

adjective. expected

adjective. easy to foretell

Old English foreseon "have a premonition," from fore- "before" + seon "to see, see ahead" (see see (v.)). Related: Foresaw; foreseeing; foreseen.

It foretells events which no uninspired man could have foreseen.

All their calamities, except the plague, were the foreseen results of their own decision.

In any case, he had not foreseen the swift bringing home of his connection.

The eventuality he had not foreseen had appalled him as a humane man and a fond husband.

The likelihood that it might be necessary to sacrifice the ships had been foreseen.

He seemed to have foreseen it, and to be well satisfied thereat.

I had foreseen the probability of her coming, but not the possibility of her coming so soon.

She was face to face with the crisis she had foreseen—the coming of one who knew the Princess.

The "brass hats," as Blake had foreseen, were avid for details.

I should have foreseen this; I should have warned you ere now.