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| 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
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
prediction, announcement; program, programme (plan) [more]; premonition (warning) [more]; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; ahariolation, hariolation; foreboding, aboding; bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen [more]; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortunetelling; divination; necromancy [more]., [Divination by the stars] astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology., [Place of prediction] adytum., prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type.
-verbs
predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscoppe, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn [more]., presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow; portend; foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to., usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower., hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor [more].
-adjectives
predicting; predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, harupsical, Sibylline; weatherwise., ominous, portentous, augurous, agurial, agural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
-phrases
"coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus bona verba; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young].
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| Main Entry: | announcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proclamation, declaration |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, disclosure, dissemination, edict, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, publication, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement, communiqué, divulgence, exposing, promulgation, publishing |
| Main Entry: | divination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortune-telling |
| Synonyms: | augury, prediction, premonition, prophecy, clairvoyancy, horoscopy, occultism, palmistry, prognostication, soothsaying |
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting |
| 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: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, augury, chill, dread, fear, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prophecy, warning, apprehensiveness, bad vibes, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, sinking feeling, vibes, wind change |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
| Antonyms: | fortune, luck, providence, good omen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, speculation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, ballpark figure*, conclusion, conjecture, deduction, divination, estimate, fancy, feeling, hunch*, hypothesis, induction, inference, judgment, notion, opinion, postulate, prediction, presumption, reckoning, shot*, shot in the dark*, stab*, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theory, thesis, view, guesstimate, guesswork, postulation, presupposition, sneaking suspicion, supposal, surmisal |
| Antonyms: | calculation, measurement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horoscope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | astrological forecast |
| Synonyms: | astrology, prediction, crystal gazing |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
| Synonyms: | alchemy, astrology, augury, black art, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, sleight of hand, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, trickery, voodoo, witchcraft, allurement, bewitchment, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, prestidigitation, rune, soothsaying, thaumaturgy, voodooism, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | oracle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prophecy |
| Synonyms: | answer, apocalypse, augury, canon, commandment, divination, edict, fortune, law, prediction, revelation, vision, prognostication |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prognosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forecast |
| Synonyms: | cast, diagnosis, expectation, guess, prediction, projection, prophecy, speculation, surmise, foretelling, prevision, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, guidance, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out*, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, token, wink, word, word to the wise, Mayday, SOS, foretoken, forewarning, handwriting on wall, heads up, tip-off, watch-it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sign of things to come |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | handwriting on the wall, harbinger, portent, prediction, premonition, sign, signal, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, preindication, warning sign |
| Main Entry: | prescience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foresight |
| Synonyms: | acumen, anticipation, foreknowledge, forethought, prediction |
| Main Entry: | crystal ball |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortune teller's globe or ability |
| Synonyms: | clairvoyance, divination, prediction, envisagement, forward look, prevenience |
| Main Entry: | calculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computing, estimating amount |
| Synonyms: | arithmetic, computation, estimate, estimation, forecast, judgment, prediction, reckoning, summation, adding, ciphering, counting, dividing, figuring, multiplying, subtracting, totaling |
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, evidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, augury, badge, beacon, bell, caution, clue, divination, flag, flash, foreboding, foreknowledge, gesture, harbinger, herald, high sign*, hint, light, manifestation, mark, nod, note, omen, portent, precursor, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, proof, signal, suggestion, symbol, symptom, token, trace, vestige, warning, wave, whistle, wink, auspice, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, giveaway, handwriting on wall, prognostic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tip/tipoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inside information |
| Synonyms: | bang*, bug*, buzz*, clue, cue, dope*, forecast, hint, in, information, inkling, inside wire, knowledge, news, point, pointer, prediction, prompt, secret information, steer*, suggestion, two cents' worth, warning, whisper, word, word of advice, word to the wise |
| Antonyms: | silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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