Synonyms of presaged

presaged

verb

past tense of presage

as in predicted

to tell of or describe beforehand

people used to believe that a comet presaged a major event, such as the death of a king

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicted
• read
• anticipated
• foretold
• augured
• prophesied
• prognosticated
• forecast
• announced
• called
• foresaw
• warned
• portended
• promised
• alerted
• vaticinated
• forewarned
• cautioned
• boded
• heralded
• proclaimed
• divined
• declared
• foreboded
• foreknew

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• described
• reported
• related
• told
• recounted
• recited
• narrated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of presaged

Those protests presaged the more violent demonstrations in October and November. — Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2026

As author Derek Donovan notes, Delk’s tower presaged the step-back Art Deco skyscrapers of the late 1920s, such as Kansas City’s Power and Light Building. — Elijah Winkler, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026

Their ’90s output handily presaged the logic of media like the shows that aired on Adult Swim, adapting the bounciness and surrealism of childhood stories to biting adult sensibilities. — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026

Years of turmoil presaged the takeover. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2026

Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged the interactive art of today, died in Paris on May 30. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 June 2026

Hutchinson also described a family history of mental health struggles that presaged his own decline at UC Davis in the months before the killings. — Darrell Smith may 28, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026

Hopkins turned in a tour de force creepy performance that presaged his Oscar-winning work in The Silence of the Lambs years later. — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 May 2026

But Henry Wilshire’s agreement with the city presaged a long struggle to build the system’s central artery, the D Line, which runs east to west underneath the city, roughly along the path of Wilshire Boulevard. — Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026