Nearby Words
omened
[oh-muhn] 
| Main Entry: |
forebode
[fawr-bohd, fohr-]
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| 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: | 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: | predict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express an outcome in advance |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, be afraid, call, call it, conclude, conjecture, croak, crystal-ball divine, envision, figure, figure out, forebode, forecast, foresee, forespeak, foretell, gather, guess, have a hunch, hazard a guess, infer, judge, make book, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, read, see coming, see handwriting on wall, size up, soothsay, suppose, surmise, telegraph, think, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict or have a feeling |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, forerun, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, herald, intuit, omen, point to, portend, preindicate, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, soothsay, vaticinate, warn |
| Main Entry: | promise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring hope, possibility |
| Synonyms: | augur, bespeak, betoken, bode, denote, encourage, forebode, foreshadow, foretoken, give hope, hint, hold out hope, hold probability, indicate, lead to expect, like, look, omen, portend, presage, seem likely, show signs of, suggest |
| Antonyms: | discourage |
| Main Entry: | betoken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | assert, augur, bespeak, betide, denote, express, forebode, foreshadow, foreshow, import, note, omen, portend, presage, show, signify, symbolize, witness |
| Main Entry: | bode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to foreshadow |
| Synonyms: | augur, betoken, forebode, forecast, foreshow, foretell, herald, indicate, message, offer, omen, portend, predict, presage, signify, stop |
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