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foregoneenUK
fore·gonev. (fôr-gôn′, -gŏn′)Past participle of forego1adj. (fôr′gôn′, -gŏn′) Having gone before; previous.Usage Note: The word foregone is occasionally used by itself as a truncation of the phrase a foregone conclusion, as in It is by no means foregone that the team will relocate to Baltimore next season. But the usage has not gained broad acceptance. More than 85 percent of Usage Panelists disapproved of this usage in our 2014 survey.foregone (fɔːˈɡɒn; ˈfɔːˌɡɒn) adjgone or completed; past foreˈgoneness nfore•gone (fɔrˈgɔn, -ˈgɒn, foʊr-; ˈfɔrˌgɔn, -ˌgɒn, ˈfoʊr-)
adj. having gone before; previous; past. [1590–1600] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | foregone - well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"bygone, bypast, departed, gonepast - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
foregone adjectivea foregone conclusion certainty, open-and-shut case, sure thing, dead cert (informal), cert (informal), shoo-in (U.S. & Canad.) The result is a foregone conclusion.Translationsforegone (ˈfoːgon) : a foregone conclusion a result that is so obvious that it can be seen before it happens. It is a foregone conclusion who will win. 意料中的 意料中的foregoneenUK
foregone conclusion1. An inevitable result. After how poorly the team has played so far this season, it's a foregone conclusion that they won't make it to the championship.2. A view or belief that one has before receiving all pertinent information. Don't come to any foregone conclusions about the accident, all right? Let me tell you the whole story first.See also: conclusion, foregoneforegone conclusionCliché a conclusion already reached; an inevitable result. That the company was moving to California was a foregone conclusion. That the mayor will win reelection is a foregone conclusion.See also: conclusion, foregoneforegone conclusion, a1. An outcome regarded as inevitable, as in The victory was a foregone conclusion. 2. A conclusion formed in advance of argument or consideration, as in The jury was warned to consider all of the evidence and not base their decision on a foregone conclusion . This idiom probably was invented by Shakespeare ( Othello, 3:3) but scholars are not agreed as to his precise meaning. [c. 1600] See also: foregonea ˌforegone conˈclusion a result that is certain to happen: It’s a foregone conclusion that Spain will win tonight’s match.See also: conclusion, foregoneforegone conclusion, aA result that is already known and therefore is taken for granted. The term comes from Shakespeare’s Othello (3.3), in which, after hearing Iago’s lie about Cassio talking in his sleep of his love affair with Desdemona, Othello says this “dream” is a “foregone conclusion”—that is, it clearly denotes that his wife has been unfaithful to him with Cassio (as Iago intended him to believe all along). Some four centuries later the term is still around: “But it could be argued that it was a surprise so many Spaniards were prepared to take part in a vote which was a foregone conclusion” (Economist, Feb. 26, 2005).See also: foregoneforegoneenUK
Related to foregone: foregone conclusionSynonyms for foregonephrase a foregone conclusionSynonyms- certainty
- open-and-shut case
- sure thing
- dead cert
- cert
- shoo-in
Synonyms for foregoneadj well in the pastSynonymsRelated Words |