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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try to figure out; imagine |
| Synonyms: | believe, calculate, chance, conjecture, dare say, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, fancy*, fathom, go out on a limb, guesstimate, happen upon, hazard*, hypothesize, infer, judge, jump to a conclusion, lump it, opine, penetrate, pick, postulate, predicate, predict, presume, pretend, reason, reckon, select, size up, solve, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, survey, suspect, take a shot at, take a stab at, theorize, think, think likely, venture, work out* |
| Antonyms: | calculate, measure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | project |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan |
| Synonyms: | arrange, blueprint, calculate, cast, chart, conceive, contemplate, contrive, delineate, design, devise, diagram, draft, envisage, envision, estimate, extrapolate, feature, forecast, frame, gauge, image, imagine, intend, map out, outline, predetermine, predict, propose, purpose, reckon, scheme, see, think, vision, visualize |
| Main Entry: | prophesy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, call the turn, call*, crystal-ball, divine, forecast, foresee, foretell, forewarn, have a hunch, make book, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, psych it out, see coming, soothsay, vaticinate |
| Notes: | prophecy is what is foretold (noun) and to prophesy is 'to foretell' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | warn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, address, admonish, advise, advocate, alert, apprise, caution, clue, clue in, counsel, cry wolf, deprecate, direct, dissuade, enjoin, exhort, fill in, forbid, forearm, forewarn, give fair warning, give the high sign, give warning, guide, hint, inform, instruct, lay it out, make aware, notify, order, post, predict, prepare, prescribe, prompt, put on guard, recommend, remind, remonstrate, reprove, signal, suggest, summon, tell, threaten, tip, tip off, urge, wise up |
| Main Entry: | envision |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceive |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, behold, conceive, conceptualize, contemplate, envisage, envision, externalize, fancy, feature, foresee, grasp, image, imagine, look upon, materialize, objectify, predict, realize, regard, see, survey, think up, view, vision, visualize |
| Notes: | envisage refers to an image that is delineated, whereas envision can refer to an appearance that is indefinite or immaterial; envisage is 'contemplate or view in a certain way' and envision means 'picture to oneself; visualize' |
| Main Entry: | feel in one's bones |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have a gut feeling |
| Synonyms: | expect, feel deeply, have a feeling, have a funny feeling, have a hunch, have a sensation, just know, perceive, predict, sense |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | valuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count*, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank*, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, take the measure of, tax, think, think through, value |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vaticinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prophesy |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, call the turn, call*, crystal-ball, divine, forecast, foresee, foretell, forewarn, have a hunch, make book, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, psych it out, see coming, soothsay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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