transitive verb. To tell of or indicate beforehand; predict.

To tell beforehand, or in advance of the event; predict; prophesy.

Synonyms To vaticinate; Foretell, Prophesy, Predict, Presage, Forebode, Prognosticate, may represent the act of a person correctly or incorrectly asserting what will happen. Foretell is the general word for telling beforehand, and generally correctly. Prophesy and predict are often used lightly for foretell, but in strictness they are more forcible words, prophesy, through its use in the Scripture, often implying supernatural help, and predict precision of calculation or knowledge. Presage implies superior wisdom or perception; to forebode is to anticipate or prophesy evil, especially indefinite evil. To prognosticate is to foretell by studying signs or symptoms: as, to prognosticate bad weather or the course of a disease. See omen.

To utter prediction or prophecy.

transitive verb. To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

intransitive verb. To utter predictions.

verb. To tell what's going to happen in the future, especially but not necessarily by having the power of clairvoyance and using it.

verb. foreshadow or presage

verb. make a prediction about; tell in advance

verb. indicate by signs

"With whatever qualifications, it is certainly one of the great English lyrics, and its union of Renaissance sensuousness with grandeur of conception and sureness of expression foretell clearly enough at twenty the poet of 'Paradise Lost.'"

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adumbrate  announce  anticipate  apprehend  approach  

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