Dictionary entry details
• FORETELL (verb)
Meaning:
Foreshadow or presage
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
annunciate; foretell; harbinger; herald; announce
Hypernyms (to "foretell" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make a prediction about; tell in advance
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
prognosticate; predict; forebode; foretell; promise; anticipate; call
Context example:
Call the outcome of an election
Hypernyms (to "foretell" is one way to...):
guess; hazard; pretend; venture (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "foretell"):
read (interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior)
outguess; second-guess (attempt to anticipate or predict)
augur (predict from an omen)
bet; wager (maintain with or as if with a bet)
calculate; forecast (predict in advance)
prophesy; vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Indicate by signs
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
augur; auspicate; bode; presage; foreshadow; omen; portend; prognosticate; prefigure; predict; betoken; foretell; forecast
Context example:
These signs bode bad news
Hypernyms (to "foretell" is one way to...):
bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "foretell"):
threaten (to be a menacing indication of something:)
foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
