PROPHESIES Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

prophesies

verb

present tense third-person singular of prophesy

as in predicts

to tell of or describe beforehand holy men were prophesying the coming of a new messiah

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Recent Examples of prophesies Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother. —

Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025 Sugar Mountain Ski Resort hosts an Oktoberfest the weekend of October 11 to 12 this year, and the annual Woolly Warm Festival, which has a caterpillar race that prophesies the length of winter, runs October 18 and 19. —

Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023

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Weather Underground predicts a 24% rain chance, partly cloudy skies and the same heat as the opener.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
Morgan Stanley predicts the space economy could surpass $1 trillion by 2040, and while industries from semiconductors to fiber-optic cables stand to benefit, medicine could see the most immediate disruption.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 9 June 2026