Synonyms of augured

augured

verb

past tense of augur

1

as in promised

to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome

the extended interview augurs well for your acceptance into that law school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• promised
• boded
• foreboded
• predicted
• presaged
• foretold
• prognosticated
• prophesied
• bade fair
• portended
• warned
• foresaw
• foreshadowed
• divined
• forecast
• forewarned
• anticipated
• betokened
• prefigured
• indicated
• hinted
• alluded
• implied
• intimated
• foreknew
• connoted
• signified
• suggested
• harbingered
• presignified
• insinuated

2

as in predicted

to tell of or describe beforehand

the fortune-teller augured nothing but a series of calamities for me

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicted
• read
• presaged
• anticipated
• foretold
• prophesied
• prognosticated
• forecast
• announced
• foresaw
• called
• portended
• boded
• warned
• vaticinated
• promised
• forewarned
• cautioned
• alerted
• divined
• foreboded
• proclaimed
• declared
• heralded
• foreknew

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• described
• reported
• told
• related
• recounted
• recited
• narrated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of augured

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

This is a massive shift from late last year, when talk of an AI bubble augured capital expenditures that would come back to bite tech companies when token demand plummeted. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026

That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per se. — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025

Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power. — Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025

Before Shakespeare, there was Christopher Marlowe, whose poetry lifted up Elizabethan drama and augured a rivalry with the Bard of Avon. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025