Foretelling

Synonyms for "foretelling" (39 found)

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Closest matches (8)

Noun(4 words)

divination forecasting prediction prognostication

apocalypse apocalyptic cast divinatory

Strong matches (12)

foreboding foreseeing foresight forewarning guesswork omen ominous oracular

Noun(3 words)

forecastfortune tellingpredicting

Verb(1 words)

portending

Related words (19)

Noun(8 words)

predictive presaging prescient projecting prophecy prophesying prophetic soothsaying

prefiguration prefigurative presage presentiment probability prognosis prognostic promise prospectus speculation weird

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

8 entries

cognition forecasting prediction predictive prognostication prophecy statement vaticination

More specific

10 entries

divination divinatoryeconomic prognosticationhoroscopic forecastoracle-likeprobabilistic forecastingprophecyscenario forecastingtrend extrapolationweather forecasting

Collocations

15 entries

foretelling accuracyforetelling analysisforetelling claimsforetelling frameworkforetelling methodforetelling modelforetelling practiceforetelling techniqueforetelling traditionliterary foretellingpredictive foretellingprophetic foretellingscientific foretellingstatistical foretellingtechnique of foretelling

Inflections

5 entries

foretellings foretells foretoldmore foretellingmost foretelling

Derivations

3 entries

foretell foreteller foretellingly

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Was Venus, a desert planet with thick clouds of sulfuric acid, foretelling the future of Earth?

Source: tatoeba (1594178)

foretellings of doom

Source: wiktionary

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