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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass destruction |
| Synonyms: | Armageddon, annihilation, cataclysm, catastrophe, decimation, devastation, end of the world, holocaust |
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| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, soothsaying, vision |
| Notes: | prophecy is what is foretold (noun) and to prophesy is 'to foretell' |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure, telling |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, blow by blow, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, divulgement, earful, epiphany, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, eye-opener, flash, foreshadowing, inspiration, leak, lightning bolt, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, the latest, tip, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling, vision |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apparition |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, chimera, delusion, ecstasy, fantasy, ghost, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, oracle, phantasm, phantom, phenomenon, presence, prophecy, revelation, specter, spirit, spook, trance, warlock, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, fact, reality |
| Main Entry: | end of the world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction of civilization |
| Synonyms: | Armageddon, apocalypse, catastrophe, final battle, final battleground, holocaust, showdown between good and evil, total annihilation |
| Main Entry: | death warrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal order to execute someone |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, bane, coup de grace, cutoff, death knell, deathblow, doom, end of the world, end point, fate, final blow, quietus |
| Main Entry: | soothsaying |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prophecy |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, vaticination, vision |
| Main Entry: | vaticination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prophecy |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, soothsaying, vision |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Cassandran, augurial, augurous, auspicial, auspicious, big with the fate of, extispicious, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, fatidical, foreseeing, ill, monitory, ominous, oracular, portentous, predicting, predictive, pregnant, premonitory, prescient, prescious, prophetic, prospective, provident, sagacious, sibylline, significant of, sponsional, vaticinal, weather
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