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foretelling
adjective as in oracular
Weak matches
- ambiguous
- anticipating
- apocalyptic
- arcane
- auguring
- auspicious
- authoritative
- cabalistic
- clairvoyant
- cryptic
- Delphian
- discovering
- divining
- divulging
- dogmatic
- fatidic
- foreboding
- forecasting
- imperious
- interpretive
- mantic
- mysterious
- mystical
- obscure
- occult
- ominous
- peremptory
- portending
- portentous
- positive
- predicting
- presaging
- prescient
- proclaiming
- prognosticating
- prophesying
- sage
- secret
- sibylline
- significant
- soothsaying
- vague
- vatic
- venerable
- wise
adjective as in predictive
adjective as in prognostic
Strong matches
adjective as in prognosticative
noun as in forecast
noun as in prediction
noun as in prognosis
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in prognostication
noun as in prophecy
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in soothsaying
noun as in vaticination
Example Sentences
Enemies exulted, foretelling an early dissolution of the feeble bands which held the dangerous Colony together.
By a certain principle understood, the omen was regarded as foretelling good or evil.
Auspicium was properly the foretelling of future events from the inspection of birds; augurium from any omen or prodigy whatever.
Jeanne at Domremy was acquainted with a prophecy foretelling that France would be ruined by a woman and saved by a maiden.
But he believed in foretelling events by means of the stars, in which he did not differ from other princes of his time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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