forecasting

A forecast or prediction.

Noun

  1. A forecast or prediction.
    • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…] - 1852, The Dublin University...

Origin

From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.

Forms

forecastings

Derived

forecastingly normative forecasting nowcasting superforecasting weather forecasting wishcasting

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of forecast

Origin

Etymology tree English forecast English -ing English forecasting From forecast + -ing.