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

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

As for Cipriani, a hidden history of run-ins with power players seems to have presaged this Shell game. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026

Those events presaged the 2026 Iran war, in which Israel and the United States launched a large-scale operation against Iran’s military infrastructure and senior leadership. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026