| Main Entry: |
handwriting on the wall
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impending misfortune |
| Synonyms: | forewarning, inevitability, portents and evils imminent, warning, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | fate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predetermined course |
| Synonyms: | Moirai, break, chance, circumstance, consequence, cup*, destination, destiny, divine will, doom, effect, end, ending, fortune, future, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, inescapableness, issue, karma, kismet, lot, luck, nemesis, outcome, portion, predestination, providence, stars, termination, upshot, wheel of fortune |
| Notes: | fate is an event or a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future or the supposed force or power that predetermines events while a fete is an elaborate, usually outdoor, party or festival |
| 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: | kismet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, fortune |
| Synonyms: | Lady Luck, chance, destination, destiny, divine will, doom, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, karma, lot, luck, portion, predestination, providence |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, apprehensiveness, discomposure, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, prenotion, presage, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, evidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, augury, auspice, badge, beacon, bell, caution, clue, divination, flag, flash, foreboding, foreknowledge, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, gesture, giveaway, handwriting on wall, harbinger, herald, high sign, hint, light, manifestation, mark, nod, note, omen, portent, precursor, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prognostic, proof, signal, suggestion, symbol, symptom, token, trace, vestige, warning, wave, whistle, wink |
| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | Mayday, SOS, admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, foretoken, forewarning, guidance, handwriting on wall, heads up, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, tip-off, token, watch-it, wink, word, word to the wise |