FORETASTES Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

foretastes

noun

plural of foretaste

as in symptoms

somewhat formal a small or short experience of something that will not be fully experienced until later The sudden cold snap gave us a foretaste of winter. These layoffs are only a foretaste of what's to come.

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Noun

But a week later, after Evelyn came home from the hospital, on June 10, Kokernak experienced the same symptoms.

— Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
As physicians, we are trained to look beyond today’s symptoms and focus on long-term health.

— Disha Narang, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of symptoms

Noun

Five or so years ago, Amrit Singh kept catching glimpses of something that looked like home.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
This terror grows familiar but not stale; the reader is allowed to live within it almost calmly and thus catch glimpses of other forces in the darkness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of glimpses

Noun

These sensual glimmers are no match for the antagonistic sociality of straight male relationships, which, in this novel, quickly convert sympathy or desire into rivalry and aggression.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
These are the glimmers of something in the fringes that keep The Cherry Orchard, even in our age of jonesing to burn it all down, so miraculously delicate and devastating.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

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