-n. 5. front, forefront, foremost part, top, head.
6. to the fore a. to or toward the front, forward up, to the surface; out, into the open, into the spotlight, to the forefront,
b. at head, within reach, ready, available,
forebear, n. Usu.
forebears ancestors, forefathers. See - forefather, forebode, v. 1. augur, presage, portend, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, presignify, omen; betoken, signify, mean, indicate, point to.
2. sense, intuit, feel, have a feeling, Inf. have a funny feeling, Inf. feel in one's bones.
3. prognosticate, prophesy, predict, soothsay, vaticinate; foretell, forecast, divine, forewarn, Rare, premonish, Obs. auspicate.
foreboding, n. 1. augury, prediction, prognostication, prophesy, prefigurement, forecast, handwriting on the wall; premonition, prognostic, preindication, forewarning; foretoken, portent, omen, sign, token, harbinger.
2. presentiment, feeling, vague feeling, Inf. funny feeling, suspicion, Inf. sneaking suspicion, intuition; anxiety, misgiving, apprehension, apprehensiveness, boding; dread, fear, ill-feeling, chill along the spine.
-adj. 3. premonitory, forewarning, foreshadowing, foretokening, preindicative; ominous, portentous, bodeful, threatening, menacing, lowering; inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising, ill-omened.
forecast, v. 1. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, augur, soothsay, vaticinate; foretell, forebode, forewarn, divine, Rare, premonish, Obs. auspicate.
2. guess, conjecture, estimate, speculate, hazard a guess, Inf. go out on a limb.
3. prearrange, predetermine, project, plan ahead, set up, work out; (all beforehand) plan, devise, contrive, design.
-n. 4. guess, conjecture, estimate, estimation, Inf. shot, Inf. shot in the dark, Inf. stab.
5. prediction, prognostication, prophecy, prefigurement, augury, foreboding, divination.
6. divination, geomancy, sortilege; soothsaying, for-tunetelling, foretelling; forecasting, (of weather) meteorology; guesswork, speculation.
foreclose, v. 1. exclude, shut out, bar, debar; reject, refuse, lock out, shut out.
2. obstruct, block, blockade, barricade, stand in the way; prevent, hinder, impede, deter,
forefather, n. ancestor, forebear, grandfather, progenitor, primogenitor, Archaic, predecessor; procreator, begetter; patriarch, parent, father, genitor; author, maker, creator, originator,
foregoing, adj. preceding, precedent, prior, preven-ient, preliminary, antecedent, anterior, forerunning; earlier, former; aforesaid, aforementioned,
foregone, adj. 1. previous, past, prior, earlier, former.
2. predetermined, predecided, prejudged, preestablished, preordained; fixed, set, cut-and-dry.
forehead, n. brow, front.
foreign, adj. 1. alien, peregrine; tramontane, ul
tramontane, transalpine; ultramarine, transmarine, transatlantic, transpacific.
2. irrelevant, impertinent, inappropriate, inapt, inapposite, unrelated, unconnected; extraneous, extrinsic, external, adventitious, ulterior, outside, outlying; remote, removed, distant.
3. unfamiliar, strange, peculiar, odd, curious, Scot. fremd; exotic, outlandish, barbarian.