| Main Entry: | prophecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
Synonyms: |
apocalypse, augury, cast, divination, forecast, foretelling, oracle, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, revelation, second sight, soothsaying, vision |
| Notes: | prophecy is what is foretold (noun) and to prophesy is 'to foretell' |
| 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: | augury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
Synonyms: |
auspice, boding, forerunner, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, portent, precursor, presage, prognostication, promise, prophecy, sign, token, warning |
| Notes: | omen has a negative connotation, a connotation absent from the word augury; generally, augury bodes well for the future, an omen bodes ill |
| 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, communiqué, conversation, converse, declaration, directive, disclosure, dispatch, excerpt, goods*, hot story, ideas, info, information, inside story, intelligence, language, lowdown, message, missive, news, note, pipeline, poop, prophecy, précis, publicity, report, revelation, scoop*, skinny*, speech, statement, summary, tidings, translation, utterance, warning, word, work |
| Main Entry: | divination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortune-telling |
Synonyms: |
augury, clairvoyancy, horoscopy, occultism, palmistry, prediction, premonition, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying |
| 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: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, often of weather or business |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, augury, budget, calculation, cast, conjecture, divination, estimate, foreknowledge, foreseeing, foresight, foretelling, forethought, foretoken, guess, outlook, planning, precognition, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, projection, prophecy |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
Synonyms: |
alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | omen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign of something to come |
Synonyms: |
augury, auspice, bodement, boding, foreboding, foretoken, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall |