AUGUR Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈȯ-gər

Definition of augur

as in diviner

one who predicts future events or developments ancient Roman augurs who predicted the future by reading the flight of birds

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verb

as in to promise

to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome the extended interview augurs well for your acceptance into that law school

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as in to predict

to tell of or describe beforehand the fortune-teller augured nothing but a series of calamities for me

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Noun

However, the lack of US presence and the diminished interest of private capital augurs negatively for the climate agenda. — semafor.com, 14 Nov. 2025 Success for the both the Lamb of God and the Bear of Blow augur well for films not based on existing IP — even if both movies are technically (very technically) based on true events. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2025

Verb

OpenAI’s report seemed to augur the very sort of disaster that IT professionals have been warning about since last year, when Anthropic’s top models began demonstrating the ability to orchestrate and automate severe cyberattacks. — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026 Hence, Raymond James heralded a 400% explosion by 2031, and Stifel at the bottom of the range augured a 19% rise. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for augur

Recent Examples of Synonyms for augur

Noun

Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.

— Essence, Essence, 23 Nov. 2025

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Verb

The government also promised 15,000 additional places in higher education, introduced across the next two years, and increases in student grants linked to inflation from the start of the next academic year.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Lula has promised expensive measures that appeal to his grassroots base.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of promise

Verb

Forecasters are predicting that the northeast and Mid-Atlantic will experience similar amounts of flooding as happened during a 2023 El Niño event — a record setting year.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
The conjecture predicts that for the curve xa = yb, a count of the matrix solutions will always collapse into a Rogers-Ramanujan-type identity.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Also known as Umm Umara, the companion of prophet Muhammad took up arms at the Battle of Uhud.

— Sara Harmouch, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
This overarching label encompassed Anabaptists, Baptists, Brownists, Levelers, Antinomians, Presbyterians, Ranters and many of the highly individual prophets and seers of 1640s Britain.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

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Verb

Although the town remains staunchly conservative, there are rumblings of displeasure with Netanyahu’s handling of the latest war against the militant group Hezbollah, and that could bode poorly for him in Israel’s election Tuesday.

— Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
This does not bode particularly well for Feyenoord, who finished a hefty 19 points behind 2025-26 Eredivisie champions PSV.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of bode

Noun

Election forecaster Cook Political Report shifted Ohio’s gubernatorial race toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton on Friday after a week of backlash over an ad Republican Vivek Ramaswamy ran featuring her estranged mother.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2026
Tropical systems coming ashore from the Pacific were the cause, forecasters said.

— MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of forecaster

Verb

Lowen must move into the Crawford family’s foreboding Vermont lake house to flirt with her husband sift through Verity’s notes and embody her voice.

— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2026
Lowen heads up to the Crawford home in Vermont, which is a stunning, if not foreboding, contemporary house by Danish sculptor and designer Jens Quistgaard that’s pretty much hidden in woods.

— Fawnia Soo Hoo, Allure, 5 Oct. 2026

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