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prophecy - 16 thesaurus results
| 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 |
| Notes: | prophecy is what is foretold (noun) and to prophesy is 'to foretell' |
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| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
Cassandran, augurial, augurous, auspicial, auspicious, big with the fate of, extispicious, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, fatidical, foreseeing, ill, monitory, ominous, oracular, portentous, predicting, predictive, pregnant, premonitory, prescient, prescious, prophetic, prospective, provident, sagacious, sibylline, significant of, sponsional, vaticinal, weather
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| Main Entry: | divination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortune-telling |
| Synonyms: | augury, prediction, premonition, prophecy, clairvoyancy, horoscopy, occultism, palmistry, prognostication, soothsaying |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | fortune, luck, providence, good omen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | prognosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forecast |
| Synonyms: | cast, diagnosis, expectation, guess, prediction, projection, prophecy, speculation, surmise, foretelling, prevision, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure, telling |
| Synonyms: | announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, flash, inspiration, leak, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, tip, vision, adumbration, blow by blow, divulgement, earful, epiphany, eye-opener, foreshadowing, lightning bolt, the latest, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | forerunner, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning, auspice, boding, foretoken, forewarning, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
| Synonyms: | divination, prediction, prophecy, soothsaying |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information transmitted |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, briefing, bulletin, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, information, intelligence, language, message, missive, news, note, précis, prophecy, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work, communiqué, hot story, ideas, info, inside story, lowdown, pipeline, poop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apparition |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, chimera, delusion, ecstasy, fantasy, ghost, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, oracle, phantasm, phantom, phenomenon, presence, prophecy, revelation, specter, spirit, spook, trance, warlock, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, fact, reality |
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