Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Prediction

Nouns
  • prediction, announcement
  • program, programme [Brit.] etc. (plan) Plan
  • premonition etc. (warning) Warning
  • prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration
  • augury, auguration
  • ariolation, hariolation
  • foreboding, aboding
  • bodement, abodement
  • omniation, omniousness
  • auspices, forecast
  • omen etc. Omen
  • horoscope, nativity
  • sooth, soothsaying
  • fortune telling, crystal gazing
  • divination
  • necromancy etc. Sorcery. [Divination by the stars] astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology. [Place of Prediction]. adytum prefiguration, prefigurement
  • prototype, type. [person who predicts] oracle etc. Oracle.
Verbs
  • predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes
  • cast a horoscope, cast a nativity
  • advise
  • forewarn etc. Warning. presage, augur, bode
  • abode, forebode
  • foretoken, betoken
  • prefigure, preshow
  • portend
  • foreshow, foreshadow
  • shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to. usher in, herald, premise, announce
  • lower. hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope
  • bid fair, promise, lead one to expect
  • be the precursor etc. Precursor. [predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience] extrapolate, project.
Adjectives
  • predicting etc. v.
  • predictive, prophetic
  • fatidic, fatidical
  • vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline
  • weatherwise. ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural
  • auspicial, auspicious
  • prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
Phrases
  • coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]
  • there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young]. [Divination: list] by oracles, Theomancy
  • by the Bible, Bibliomancy
  • by ghosts, Psychomancy
  • by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy
  • by shadows or manes, Sciomancy
  • by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy
  • by the stars at birth, Genethliacs
  • by meteors, Meteoromancy
  • by winds, Austromancy
  • by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy, Haruspicy, Hieromancy, Hieroscopy
  • by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy
  • by the entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy
  • by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy
  • by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy
  • by red-hot iron, Sideromancy
  • by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy
  • by mice, Myomancy
  • by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy
  • by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy, Alectromancy
  • by fishes, Ophiomancy
  • by herbs, Botanomancy
  • by water, Hydromancy
  • by fountains, Pegomancy
  • by a wand, Rhabdomancy
  • by dough of cakes, Crithomancy
  • by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy
  • by salt, Halomancy
  • by dice, Cleromancy
  • by arrows, Belomancy
  • by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy
  • by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy
  • by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy
  • by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy
  • by precious stones, Lithomancy
  • by pebbles, Pessomancy
  • by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy
  • by mirrors, Catoptromancy
  • by writings in ashes, Tephramancy
  • by dreams, Oneiromancy
  • by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy
  • by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy
  • by finger rings, Dactylomancy
  • by numbers, Arithmancy
  • by drawing lots, Sortilege
  • by passages in books, Stichomancy
  • by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy
  • by the features, Anthroposcopy
  • by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy
  • by ventriloquism, Gastromancy
  • by walking in a circle, Gyromancy
  • by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy
  • by currents, Bletonism
  • by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy.