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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calculate |
| Synonyms: | add, compute, count, figure, foot, forecast, number, reckon, sum, summate, tot, total |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, looking forward, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view |
| Main Entry: | forebode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | augur, betoken, bode, divine, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, indicate, omen, portend, premonish, presage, prognosticate, promise |
| Main Entry: | foresee |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anticipate, predict |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, call the turn, crystal ball it, discern, divine, dope out, envisage, espy, expect, forebode, forecast, forefeel, foreknow, foretell, have a hunch, perceive, preknow, presage, previse, prevision, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, see, see it coming, understand, visualize |
| Main Entry: | foretell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, call, call it, call the shot, crystal ball it, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope out, dope*, figure, figure out*, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foreshadow, forewarn, make book, portend, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, read, reveal, see something coming, signify, soothsay, tell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
| Antonyms: | proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | look |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expect, anticipate |
| Synonyms: | await, count on, divine, forecast, foretell, hope, hunt, reckon on, search, seek |
| Main Entry: | outlook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | probable future |
| Synonyms: | appearances, chance, expectation, forecast, law of averages, likelihood, normal course, opening, opportunity, possibility, probability, prospect, prospects, risk |
| Antonyms: | past |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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