Synonyms of prophesies

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicts
• reads
• forecasts
• foretells
• anticipates
• presages
• warns
• augurs
• announces
• prognosticates
• calls
• promises
• foresees
• forewarns
• cautions
• vaticinates
• alerts
• forebodes
• portends
• declares
• bodes
• proclaims
• divines
• heralds
• foreknows

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reports
• describes
• tells
• relates
• recounts
• recites
• narrates

Example Sentences

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