Synonyms of foretelling

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noun

as in prediction

a declaration that something will happen in the future

the ludicrous foretellings of self-styled psychics at the end of each year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prediction
• predicting
• forecasting
• forecast
• prophecy
• prophesy
• prognosis
• presaging
• prognostication
• augury
• prognostic
• anticipation
• soothsaying
• prognosticating
• auguring
• cast
• sign
• harbinger
• omen
• portent
• bodement
• prevision
• vaticination
• foreknowledge
• prospectus
• foreboding
• foresight
• guess
• conjecture
• surmise

foretelling

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adjective

as in predicting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicting
• divining
• forecasting
• foreseeing
• presaging
• prophesying
• wondrous
• fortune-telling
• marvellous
• prognosticating
• soothsaying
• foreknowing
• portentous
• miraculous
• astonishing
• stupendous
• extraordinary
• sublime
• astounding
• amazing
• metaphysical
• charming
• awesome
• enchanting
• marvelous
• preternatural
• bewitching
• stunning
• unearthly
• conjuring
• supernormal
• paranormal
• fabulous
• wiling
• spellbound
• magic
• numinous
• enchanted
• magical
• mystic
• bewitched
• occult
• weird

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ordinary
• usual
• prosaic
• normal
• routine
• everyday
• commonplace
• unremarkable
• workaday
• unexceptional
• run-of-the-mill

foretelling

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verb

present participle of foretell

as in reading

to tell of or describe beforehand

a 16th-century astrologer who, some claim, accurately foretold 20th-century events

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicting
• reading
• presaging
• prophesying
• anticipating
• forecasting
• prognosticating
• warning
• announcing
• auguring
• calling
• foreseeing
• portending
• promising
• alerting
• forewarning
• cautioning
• divining
• foreboding
• boding
• vaticinating
• heralding
• proclaiming
• declaring
• foreknowing
• forboding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• relating
• describing
• telling
• reporting
• recounting
• narrating
• reciting