Word Meanings - FORETELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate;

Additional info about word: FORETELL

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORETELL)

• Bode
• Foretell
• betoken
• foreshadow
• presage
• predict
• prophesy
• promise
• forebode
• herald
• announce
• prognosticate
• portend
• augur
• Foresee
• Predict
• anticipate
• foretell
• forecast
• foreknow
• divine
• Prognosticate
• foretoken
• indicate

Related words: (words related to FORETELL)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• AUGURER
  An augur. Shak.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• HERALDRY
  The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
• AUGURIAL
  Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.
• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• PREDICTOR
  One who predicts; a foreteller.
• ANNOUNCE
  + nuntiare to report, relate, nuntius messenger, bearer of news. See 1. To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• FOREKNOWINGLY
  With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.
• DIVINELY
  1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
• FORECASTER
  One who forecast. Johnson.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• FOREPROMISED
  Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.
• INAUGURATION
  1. The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne. 2. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement,