Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | projection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
| Synonyms: | calculation, computation, estimate, estimation, extrapolation, forecast, guess, prognostication, reckoning |
| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, soothsaying, vision |
| Notes: | prophecy is what is foretold (noun) and to prophesy is 'to foretell' |
| Main Entry: | auspice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, foreshadowing, harbinger, portent, prognostication, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | prefigurement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, forerunner, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign*, straw, warning, writing, writing on the wall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prognostic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, forerunner, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, prefigurement, premonition, presage, prognostication, prophecy, sign*, straw, warning, writing, writing on the wall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soothsaying |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prophecy |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, vaticination, vision |
| Main Entry: | vaticination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prophecy |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, soothsaying, vision |
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| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Cassandran, augurial, augurous, auspicial, auspicious, big with the fate of, extispicious, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, fatidical, foreseeing, ill, monitory, ominous, oracular, portentous, predicting, predictive, pregnant, premonitory, prescient, prescious, prophetic, prospective, provident, sagacious, sibylline, significant of, sponsional, vaticinal, weather
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