| Main Entry: | anticipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expect; predict |
Synonyms: |
assume, await, bargain for, be afraid, conjecture, count chickens, count on, cross the bridge, divine, entertain*, figure, forecast, foresee, foretaste, foretell, have a hunch, hope for, jump the gun, look for, look forward to, plan on, prepare for, prevision, prognosticate, promise oneself, prophesy, see, see coming, see in the cards, suppose, visualize, wait, wait for |
Antonyms: |
be amazed, be surprised, doubt |
| Main Entry: | expect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe strongly; anticipate |
Synonyms: |
apprehend, assume, await, bargain for, bargain on, be afraid, calculate, conjecture, contemplate, count on, divine, envisage, feel, figure, forecast, foreknow, foresee, gather, hope, hope for, imagine, in the cards, look, look ahead to, look for, look forward to, predict, presume, presuppose, reckon, see coming, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, think, trust, understand, wait for, watch for |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | foresee |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anticipate, predict |
Synonyms: |
apprehend, call the turn, crystal ball it, discern, divine, dope out, envisage, espy, expect, forebode, forecast, forefeel, foreknow, foretell, have a hunch, perceive, preknow, presage, previse, prevision, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, see, see it coming, understand, visualize |
| Main Entry: | foretell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, call, call it, call the shot, crystal ball it, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope out, dope*, figure, figure out*, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foreshadow, forewarn, make book, portend, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, read, reveal, see something coming, signify, soothsay, tell |
| Main Entry: | imminent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at hand, on the way |
Synonyms: |
about to happen, approaching, brewing, close, coming, expectant, fast-approaching, following, forthcoming, gathering, handwriting-on-the-wall, immediate, impending, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, likely, looming, menacing, near, nearing, next, nigh, on its way, on the horizon, on the verge, overhanging, possible, probable, see it coming, threatening, to come, unavoidable, unescapable |
| Notes: | if you mean 'famous' or 'superior,' you want eminent; if you mean 'impending, about to happen' that is imminent; and if you mean 'present, inherent,' your word is immanent imminent is 'about to happen' and immanent is 'inherent' or 'pervading the material world' |
Antonyms: |
distant, doubtful, far, future, later |
| Main Entry: | impending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forthcoming |
Synonyms: |
approaching, at hand, brewing, coming, gathering, handwriting-on-the-wall, hovering, imminent, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, looking to, looming, menacing, near, nearing, ominous, on the horizon, overhanging, portending, proximate, see it coming, threatening, waiting to |
Antonyms: |
distant, later, never, remote |
| Main Entry: | portend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | foreshadow, indicate |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, augur, be in the cards, bespeak, betoken, bode, call*, crystal-ball, forebode, forecast, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, hint, omen, point to, predict, premonish, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, see coming, threaten, warn of |
| Main Entry: | predict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express an outcome in advance |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, anticipate, augur, be afraid, call, call it, conclude, conjecture, croak, crystal-ball divine, envision, figure, figure out, forebode, forecast, foresee, forespeak, foretell, gather, guess, have a hunch, hazard a guess, infer, judge, make book, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, read, see coming, see handwriting on wall, size up, soothsay, suppose, surmise, telegraph, think, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | prognosticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, foretell |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, augur, betoken, call it, crystal-ball, divine, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, make book, point to, portend, presage, prophesy, read, see coming, soothsay, vaticinate |