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omen - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: omen
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sign of something to come
Synonyms: augury, foreboding, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall*, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, prognostic, prognostication
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 Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-nouns
omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign (indication) [more]; harbinger (precursor) [more]; yule candle., bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning [more]., prefigurement [more].
-adjectives
ill-boding.
-phrases
auspicium melioris aevi.
Main Entry: cautionary tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: piece of advice
Synonyms: admonition, advisory, caveat, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag*, red flag, sign of things to come*, sign of things to come, warning, word to the wise, word to the wise, a few words of wisdom, caution light, deterrent example, enough said, event illustrating a hazard, forewarning, wake-up call, wake-up call
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
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: foreshadow
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: indicate
Synonyms: adumbrate, augur, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, be in the wind, telegraph
Main Entry: harbinger
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indication
Synonyms: augury, forerunner, herald, messenger, omen, portent, precursor, sign, signal, foretoken
Main Entry: hint
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indication; suggestion
Synonyms: advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, token, trace, warning, whiff*, whisper, wink*, wrinkle*, adumbration, flea in ear, glimmering, signification, tip-off, word to wise
Main Entry: indication
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: evidence, clue
Synonyms: augury, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, gesture, hint, implication, index, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink*, adumbration, attestation, auspice, forewarning, indicia, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, signifier
Antonyms: misinformation
Main Entry: indicator
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sign
Synonyms: barometer, beacon, clue, dial, gauge, guide, hint, index, mark, meter, omen, pointer, signal, symbol, warning
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
Main Entry: precognition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clairvoyance
Synonyms: ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense*, telepathy, extra sensory perception, fortune-telling
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
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
Main Entry: premonition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feeling that an event is about to occur
Synonyms: apprehension, feeling, foreboding, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, presentiment, sign, suspicion, warning, apprehensiveness, feeling in bones, forewarning, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, vibrations, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment
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: signal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indication; authorization
Synonyms: alarm, alert, beacon, cue, flag, flare, gesture, go-ahead*, green light*, high sign*, indicator, mark, movement, nod, okay*, omen, sign, tocsin, token, wink, Mayday, SOS, bleep, blinker
Main Entry: threat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: warning; danger
Synonyms: blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, fulmination, hazard, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall*, foreshadowing, impendence
Main Entry: token
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: indication, remembrance
Synonyms: badge, clue, demonstration, earnest, evidence, expression, favor, gift, index, keepsake, manifestation, mark, memento, memorial, note, omen, pawn, pledge, presage, proof, relic, reminder, representation, sample, security, sign, significant, souvenir, symbol, symptom, trophy, warning, warrant, indicia
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