- prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication - a statement made about the future
--1 is a kind of statement
--1 has particulars:extropy; fortunetelling; horoscope; meteorology, weather forecasting; prognosis, forecast; prophecy, divination Derived form: verb foretell2 - divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
--2 is a kind of prophecy, prognostication, vaticination
--2 has particulars:dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy; geomancy; hydromancy; lithomancy; necromancy; oneiromancy; onomancy; palmistry, palm reading, chiromancy, chirology; pyromancy
- announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald - foreshadow or presage
--1 is one way to tell
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
--2 is one way to guess, venture, pretend, hazard
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun foretelling1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
--3 is one way to bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something