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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, foretell |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, betoken, call it, crystal-ball, divine, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, make book, point to, portend, presage, prophesy, read, see coming, soothsay, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | augur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict; be an omen of |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, bespeak, bode, call it, call the shots, crystal-ball, figure out, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, psych out, read, signify, soothsay |
| Notes: | an auger is a tool and to augur is to foretell or betoken |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, consider |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, approximate, augur, forecast, foretell, guess, judge, make rough guess, place, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, put, reckon, regard, think, vaticinate |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
| Main Entry: | divine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prophesy |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, apprehend, conjecture, deduce, discern, forebode, forefeel, foreknow, foresee, foretell, go out on a limb, guess, infer, intuit, perceive, predict, previse, prognosticate, see, see in the cards, suppose, surmise, suspect, take a shot, take a stab, understand, visualize |
| 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: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, guess |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, calculate, call the turn, conclude, conjecture, demonstrate, determine, divine, dope out, estimate, figure, figure out*, foresee, foretell, gather, gauge, in the cards, infer, plan, portend, predetermine, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, reason, see it coming, soothsay, surmise, telegraph |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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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