| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
Synonyms: |
auspice, boding, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, prognostication, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill |
| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
Synonyms: |
divination, prediction, prophecy, soothsaying |
| Main Entry: | divination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortune-telling |
Synonyms: |
augury, clairvoyancy, horoscopy, occultism, palmistry, prediction, premonition, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying |
| Main Entry: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
Synonyms: |
anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, bad vibes, chill, dread, fear, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prophecy, sinking feeling, vibes, warning, wind change |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
Antonyms: |
fortune, good omen, luck, providence |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, often of weather or business |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, augury, budget, calculation, cast, conjecture, divination, estimate, foreknowledge, foreseeing, foresight, foretelling, forethought, foretoken, guess, outlook, planning, precognition, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, projection, prophecy |
| Main Entry: | forerunner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | example, sign |
Synonyms: |
advertisement, announcement, antecedent, antecessor, augury, exemplar, foregoer, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarning, indication, mark, model, omen, pattern, portent, precursor, predecessor, premonition, presage, prognostic, prototype, sign, token, warning |
Antonyms: |
result |
| Main Entry: | harbinger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication |
Synonyms: |
augury, forerunner, foretoken, herald, messenger, omen, portent, precursor, sign, signal |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
Antonyms: |
proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | indication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, clue |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, attestation, augury, auspice, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, forewarning, gesture, hint, implication, index, indicia, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, signifier, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink |
Antonyms: |
misinformation |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
Synonyms: |
alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |