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| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, often of weather or business |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, augury, budget, calculation, cast, conjecture, divination, estimate, foreknowledge, foresight, forethought, guess, outlook, planning, precognition, prescience, prognosis, projection, prophecy, foreseeing, foretelling, foretoken, prevision, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, guess |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, calculate, conclude, conjecture, demonstrate, determine, divine, estimate, figure, foresee, foretell, gather, gauge, infer, plan, portend, predetermine, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, reason, surmise, call the turn, dope out*, figure out*, in the cards, see it coming, soothsay, telegraph |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | augur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict; be an omen of |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, bespeak, bode, call the shots*, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, herald, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, signify, call it, crystal-ball, figure out, have a hunch, psych out, soothsay |
| Notes: | an auger is a tool and to augur is to foretell or betoken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | forebode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | augur, betoken, bode, divine, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, indicate, omen, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise, foretoken, premonish |
| Main Entry: | foresee |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anticipate, predict |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, discern, divine, envisage, espy, expect, forebode, forecast, foretell, perceive, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, see, understand, visualize, call the turn, crystal ball it, dope out*, forefeel, foreknow, have a hunch, preknow, previse, prevision, psych out, see it coming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foretell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope*, figure, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, forewarn, portend, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, prophesy, read, reveal, signify, tell, auspicate, call it, call the shot, crystal ball it, dope out*, figure out*, foreknow, make book, psych, see something coming, soothsay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | portend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | foreshadow, indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, bespeak, betoken, bode, call*, forebode, forecast, foretell, forewarn, harbinger, herald, hint, omen, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, threaten, be in the cards, crystal-ball, foreshow, foretoken, have a hunch, point to, premonish, see coming, warn of |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express an outcome in advance |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, call, conclude, conjecture, croak, envision, figure, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, gather, guess, infer, judge, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, read, suppose, surmise, think, be afraid, call it, crystal-ball divine*, figure out, forespeak, have a hunch, hazard a guess, make book, psych out, see coming, see handwriting on wall, size up*, soothsay, telegraph, vaticinate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prediction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration made in advance |
| Synonyms: | augury, cast, conjecture, divination, dope, forecast, foresight, guess, horoscope, hunch*, indicator, omen, presage, prognosis, prophecy, tip, crystal gazing, forecasting, foretelling, fortune-telling, of event anticipation, palmistry, prevision, prognostication, soothsaying, surmising, vaticination, zodiac |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, augury, forecast, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, presentiment, prophecy, sign, warning, apprehensiveness, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict or have a feeling |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, harbinger, herald, omen, portend, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, warn, forerun, foreshow, foretoken, intuit, point to, preindicate, soothsay, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling*, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, presage, apprehensiveness, discomposure, feeling in bones, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prognosticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, foretell |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, betoken, divine, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, harbinger, herald, portend, presage, prophesy, read, call it, crystal-ball, have a hunch, make book, point to, see coming, soothsay, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, oracle, presage, prognosis, revelation, second sight, vision, foretelling, prevision, prognostication, soothsaying |
| Main Entry: | prophesy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, call*, divine, forecast, foresee, foretell, forewarn, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, call the turn, crystal-ball, have a hunch, make book, psych it out, see coming, soothsay, vaticinate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weather forecast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meteorological outlook |
| Synonyms: | 5-day forecast, forecast, general outlook, local forecast, long-term forecast, regional forecast, small-craft advisory, storm warning, storm watch, weather prediction, weather report |
| Main Entry: | anticipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expect; predict |
| Synonyms: | assume, await, bargain for*, conjecture, count on, divine, entertain*, figure, forecast, foresee, foretell, jump the gun*, prognosticate, prophesy, see, suppose, visualize, wait, be afraid, count chickens, cross the bridge, foretaste, have a hunch, hope for, look for, look forward to, plan on, prepare for, prevision, promise oneself, see coming, see in the cards, wait for |
| Antonyms: | doubt, be amazed, be surprised |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | calculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compute or estimate amount |
| Synonyms: | account, add, adjust, appraise, assay, cast, cipher, consider, count, determine, divide, enumerate, figure, forecast, foretell, gauge, guess, judge, measure, multiply, number, rate, reckon, subtract, sum, tally, value, weigh, work out, dope out*, keep tabs, size up, take account of, tot, tote up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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