Synonyms of auguring

auguring 1 of 2

noun

as in prediction

a declaration that something will happen in the future

it's a good thing that people don't remember the tabloid's augurings a year later, since very few come to pass

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

auguring

2 of 2

verb

present participle of augur

1

as in promising

to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• promising
• boding
• foreboding
• predicting
• presaging
• foretelling
• forecasting
• prophesying
• prognosticating
• warning
• portending
• foreseeing
• bidding fair
• divining
• anticipating
• forewarning
• foreshadowing
• betokening
• hinting
• indicating
• prefiguring
• implying
• alluding
• intimating
• foreknowing
• connoting
• signifying
• suggesting
• presignifying
• harbingering
• insinuating

2

as in predicting

to tell of or describe beforehand

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of auguring

Noun

In the distance, the dormant Volcán de Agua looms, a ring of wispy clouds around its peak auguring afternoon rain. — Michaela Trimble, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2021

Verb

Millar, however, noted that a gauge of wholesale costs rose at the fastest pace in more than three years, auguring a further rise in consumer prices. — Paul Davidson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025