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augury

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of augury

1 a declaration that something will happen in the future

  • a yearbook augury that of all the graduates, he would be the most likely to succeed
Synonyms of augury

auguring, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, prediction, presaging, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticating, prognostication, prophecy (also prophesy), soothsaying, vaticination
Words Related to augury

foreboding, harbinger, omen, portent, prevision, prospectus, sign

anticipation, foreknowledge

foresight

conjecture, guess, surmise

2 something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event

  • some people believe that a broken mirror is an augury of seven years' bad luck
Synonyms of augury

auspice, boding, foreboding, foreshadowing, omen, portent, prefiguring, presage
Words Related to augury

forerunner, harbinger, herald, precursor

foretaste, hint, inkling, intimation, suggestion

forewarning

forecast, foretelling, prediction, prognostication, prophecy (also prophesy)

badge, mark, note, token

divination
Phrases Synonymous with augury

straw in the wind

3 the art or practice of foretelling future events by interpreting omens

  • the gift of augury that Nostradamus purportedly possessed
Synonyms of augury

divination
Words Related to augury

astrology, crystal gazing, geomancy, hydromancy, oneiromancy, pyromancy, rhabdomancy

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