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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | auspice, boding, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, prognostication, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill |
| Main Entry: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, bad vibes, chill, dread, fear, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prophecy, sinking feeling, vibes, warning, wind change |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
| Antonyms: | fortune, good omen, luck, providence |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, often of weather or business |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, augury, budget, calculation, cast, conjecture, divination, estimate, foreknowledge, foreseeing, foresight, foretelling, forethought, foretoken, guess, outlook, planning, precognition, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, projection, prophecy |
| Main Entry: | forerunner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | example, sign |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, announcement, antecedent, antecessor, augury, exemplar, foregoer, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarning, indication, mark, model, omen, pattern, portent, precursor, predecessor, premonition, presage, prognostic, prototype, sign, token, warning |
| Antonyms: | result |
| Main Entry: | harbinger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication |
| Synonyms: | augury, forerunner, foretoken, herald, messenger, omen, portent, precursor, sign, signal |
| Notes: | a harbinger is an indication of the approach of something or someone; a messenger is a person who carries a communications or performs an errand; an omen is a sign of something about to happen |
| Main Entry: | herald |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring message |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, ballyhoo, broadcast, declare, forerun, foretoken, harbinger, indicate, pave the way, portend, precede, preindicate, presage, proclaim, promise, publicize, publish, show, tout, trumpet, usher in |
| Main Entry: | omen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign of something to come |
| Synonyms: | augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill a harbinger is an indication of the approach of something or someone; a messenger is a person who carries a communications or performs an errand; an omen is a sign of something about to happen |
| Main Entry: | portend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | foreshadow, indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, be in the cards, bespeak, betoken, bode, call*, crystal-ball, forebode, forecast, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, hint, omen, point to, predict, premonish, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, see coming, threaten, warn of |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | portent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, forewarning |
| Synonyms: | augury, bodement, boding, caution, clue, foreboding, foreshadowing, foretoken, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, harbinger, hunch, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, sign, sinking feeling, threat, vibes, warning |
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