prediction

prediction
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Foretelling the future
Nouns
1. prediction, announcement; premonition, warning; prophecy, vaticination, prognosis, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; foreboding, presentiment, premonition, presage; ominousness; auspices, forecast; omen, horoscope, soothsaying; fortune-telling, crystal-gazing, chiromancy, palmistry, aleuromancy, haruspication, necromancy, stargazing; divination, prophetic vision, auspice; necromancy (see sorcery); spiritualism; clairvoyance (see intuition); astrology, horoscopy; prefiguration, prefigurement.
2. foresight, precognition, prescience, foreknowledge, anticipation, prevision, foretoken, forethought; providence, prudence, preparation; clairvoyance, second sight; foreboding, premonition, presentiment; foretaste, preview; foreshadowing, foretelling, forecasting, prophecy, prophetic vision. See caution, futurity.
3. prophet, seer, augur, oracle, fortune-teller, soothsayer, crystal-gazer; weatherman or -woman; herald; Cassandra, sibyl, Delphic oracle, Sphinx; sorcerer, interpreter.
4. crystal ball, tea leaves, divining rod, etc.; Ouija board.
Verbs
1. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, forecast, divine, foretell, soothsay, augur, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope; presage, [fore]bode, foretoken, portend, foreshadow; herald, announce; call the turn or shot.
2. bid fair; promise; lead one to expect; be the precursor or forerunner.
3. foresee, anticipate, foreknow, presurmise, expect. See expectation.
Adjectives — predicting, predictive, prophetic, oracular, sibylline; ominous, portentous; auspicious; prescient, farsighted; minatory, monitory, premonitory.
Phrases — nothing is certain but the unforeseen; prevention is better than cure; look before you leap.
Quotations — The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a'gley (Robert Burns), You can only predict things after they've happened (Eugène Ionesco).
Antonyms, see chance, surprise.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. prophecy, foresight, prognostication; see forecast .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
prophecy, forecast, prognostication, prognosis, guess, augury, divination, expectation, intuition.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The act of predicting: forecast, outlook, prognosis, prognostication, projection. See FORESIGHT.

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