PROPHESYING Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in predicting

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noun

as in prophecy

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verb

present participle of prophesy

as in reading

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

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Hall was raised in large part by a single mother—who, perhaps prophesying her son’s eventual vocation in Hollywood, was named Annie Hall. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026 Citrini was far from the only voice prophesying such a pessimistic future. — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026 One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025 The Houthis are led by a family of clerical megalomaniacs who have been prophesying apocalyptic war since the early 2000s. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prophesying

Adjective

The resulting film is somehow weirder, wondrous, and more wistful than what even that logline suggests.

— Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026
The wondrous paintbrush of Cartoon Saloon has now reached the Latino community of Brooklyn.

— Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of wondrous

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House of the Dragon, meanwhile, specified that the prophecy was about a Targaryen ruler who would unite Westeros against a coming darkness from the far north.

— Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Mandel's futuristic story of a world ravaged by a lethal flu virus was already a bestseller and National Book Award finalist six years before the coronavirus pandemic gave it the unwanted status of prophecy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of prophecy

Verb

His point is that although LLMs, no less than chess engines and other specialist systems, are trained on a specific task—namely, predicting the next word in a text passage—that task is special.

— George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the war in Sudan, reported earlier that 67 bodies were pulled from the rubble, predicting that the death toll could increase as rescuers continued their search.

— Yasir Abdallah, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of predicting

Noun

Here are previews and predictions for districts involving Fort Worth-area teams.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026
For decades, astronomers studying the surroundings of the Milky Way have determined there are too few dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our own galaxy when compared to predictions made by the standard model of cosmology.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of prediction

Verb

One of my most vivid memories of my time with All That is Left of Life is not a translation memory at all, but of reading it for the very first time.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
No one should be reading the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Barnyard Recruitment Manual without appropriate ID.

— Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of reading

Noun

Senior vice president of strategy and client success Benjamin Bond has joined its Fresh Food Leadership Council, where his work will include forecasting, food waste and visibility across fresh-food operations.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026
Agricultural production technologies and weather forecasting capabilities have also improved substantially, all of which could help the market absorb part of the supply shocks.

— , CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of forecasting

Noun

In these transitional months, everyone has their own premonitions about what trends will dominate the season ahead, but what will actually happen is pretty much anyone’s guess.

— Joan Kennedy, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2026
Portland’s women’s sporting epicenter Lisa believes her family’s years in the fashion industry gave her and her brother a premonition about the rise of women’s sports years before the NWSL and WNBA would take off in earnest.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of premonition

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