FOREGONE CONCLUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foregone conclusion mean? 

• FOREGONE CONCLUSION (noun)
  The noun FOREGONE CONCLUSION has 2 senses:

1. an inevitable ending

2. something that is certain

  Familiarity information: FOREGONE CONCLUSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREGONE CONCLUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inevitable ending

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

foregone conclusion; matter of course

Hypernyms ("foregone conclusion" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that is certain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

certainty; foregone conclusion; sure thing

Context example:

his victory is a certainty

Hypernyms ("foregone conclusion" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

certain (established beyond doubt or question; definitely known)

uncertain (not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foregone conclusion"):

cert (an absolute certainty)

ineluctability; unavoidability (the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade)

inevitability; inevitableness (the quality of being unavoidable)

surety (something clearly established)

indisputability; indubitability; unquestionability; unquestionableness (the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt)

moral certainty (certainty based on an inner conviction)

predictability (the quality of being predictable)

slam dunk (something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion)

 Context examples 

Wolf Larsen looked curiously at him, as though about to probe and vivisect him, then changed his mind, as from the foregone conclusion that there was nothing there to probe.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)