Search Result:foretelling
Overview of noun foretelling
The noun foretelling has 2 senses
- prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication -- (a statement made about the future)
- divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling -- (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Overview of verb foretell
The verb foretell has 3 senses
- announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald -- (foreshadow or presage)
- predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise -- (make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election")
- bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict -- (indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news")