| Main Entry: | omen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign of something to come |
Synonyms: |
augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill a harbinger is an indication of the approach of something or someone; a messenger is a person who carries a communications or performs an errand; an omen is a sign of something about to happen |
| Concept: | Omen. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign (indication); harbinger (precursor); yule candle., bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning., prefigurement.
-adjectives
ill-boding.
-phrases
auspicium melioris aevi.
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| Main Entry: | caution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning |
Synonyms: |
admonition, advice, bug in one's ear, caveat, commonition, counsel, forewarning, hint, injunction, monition, notice, omen, premonition, sign, tip*, tip-off |
| Main Entry: | cautionary tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of advice |
Synonyms: |
a few words of wisdom, admonition, advisory, caution light, caveat, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag, red flag, sign of things to come, sign of things to come, wake-up call, wake-up call, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuition |
Synonyms: |
ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense, telepathy |
| Notes: | clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | harbinger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication |
Synonyms: |
augury, forerunner, foretoken, herald, messenger, omen, portent, precursor, sign, signal |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, flea in ear, glimmering, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, signification, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, tip-off, token, trace, warning, whiff, whisper, wink, word to wise, wrinkle |