| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict or have a feeling |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, forerun, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, herald, intuit, omen, point to, portend, preindicate, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, soothsay, vaticinate, warn |
| Main Entry: | announce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | declare arrival |
Synonyms: |
augur, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshow, foretell, harbinger, herald, indicate, portend, predict, presage, signal, signify |
| Notes: | to announce is to make known publicly; to pronounce is to declare officially or formally |
Antonyms: |
be quiet, hide, withhold |
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, fear |
Synonyms: |
alarm, apprehensiveness, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, foreboding, misgiving, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, suspicion, trepidation, uneasiness, worry |
Antonyms: |
calmness, ease |
| Main Entry: | augur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict; be an omen of |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, bespeak, bode, call it, call the shots, crystal-ball, figure out, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, psych out, read, signify, soothsay |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, consider |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, approximate, augur, forecast, foretell, guess, judge, make rough guess, place, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, put, reckon, regard, think, vaticinate |
Antonyms: |
ignore |
| 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: | 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 |
Antonyms: |
fortune, good omen, luck, providence |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, guess |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, anticipate, augur, calculate, call the turn, conclude, conjecture, demonstrate, determine, divine, dope out, estimate, figure, figure out*, foresee, foretell, gather, gauge, in the cards, infer, plan, portend, predetermine, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, reason, see it coming, soothsay, surmise, telegraph |