Synonyms of foreshadows

foreshadows

verb

present tense third-person singular of foreshadow

as in prefigures

to give a slight indication of beforehand

a series of small tremors that foreshadowed the massive earthquake the next day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prefigures
• predicts
• implies
• heralds
• anticipates
• adumbrates
• foresees
• foretells
• suggests
• harbingers
• presages
• portends
• foreruns
• prophesies
• bodes
• alludes
• forecasts
• hints
• prognosticates
• promises
• connotes
• forebodes
• augurs
• foreknows
• intimates
• forewarns
• insinuates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of foreshadows

Zoom out across college athletics, and that resume foreshadows a divorce. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

The film smartly foreshadows what will befall Alma and Maggie and Hank. — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026

The book wonderfully foreshadows one of its best moments, but the film doesn’t do this at all, setting up the action with a few lines of dialog instead. — Matthew Razak, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026

Earlier poem-scrolls appear here, too, written in a style that foreshadows the graffiti Wong would come to love decades later. — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026

This also foreshadows the difficult reality that our talent model must evolve in tandem. — Rachel Proffitt, Fortune, 23 June 2026

Mercury’s entrance to Capricorn foreshadows an important business conversation. — Usa Today, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026

It was shot in 2020, but the story foreshadows events that occurred during its release year (2021) in Guinea, Southeastern Nigeria, Myanmar, and Sudan. — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025

With almost three years left in his final term, Trump’s absence from CPAC foreshadows his eventual departure as leader of the GOP and the conservative movement, a role typically served by the president or the party’s leading contender for the White House. — Gromer Jeffers Jr. political, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026