Synonyms of augury

augury

noun

1

as in prediction

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 & Similar Words

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

2

as in omen

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 & Similar Words

• omen
• prediction
• forerunner
• portent
• presage
• suggestion
• precursor
• foreshadowing
• hint
• foreboding
• herald
• prophecy
• boding
• auspice
• prefiguring
• harbinger
• straw in the wind
• divination
• badge
• intimation
• prophesy
• forecast
• inkling
• prognostication
• foretaste
• forewarning
• foretelling
• token
• mark
• note

3

as in divination

the art or practice of foretelling future events by interpreting omens

the gift of augury that Nostradamus purportedly possessed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• divination
• astrology
• geomancy
• crystal gazing
• oneiromancy
• pyromancy
• hydromancy
• rhabdomancy