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prophesying
[prof-uh-sahy] 
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prophesy
[prof-uh-sahy]
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| 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: | 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: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, 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, tax, think, think through |
| 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: | foreshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, be in the wind, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph |
| 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: | oracular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
| Synonyms: | Delphian, ambiguous, anticipating, apocalyptic, arcane, auguring, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, discovering, divining, divulging, dogmatic, fatidic, foreboding, forecasting, foretelling, imperious, interpretive, mantic, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portending, portentous, positive, predicting, presaging, prescient, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sage, secret, sibylline, significant, soothsaying, vague, vatic, venerable, wise |
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