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Meanings of
foretell
in English
Portuguese
prognosticar
Catalan
augurar
Spanish
prever
Back to the meaning
Indicate by signs.
call
promise
forecast
predict
anticipate
omen
bode
presage
portend
augur
Portuguese
prognosticar
Portuguese
prever
Catalan
anunciar
Spanish
presagiar
Back to the meaning
Foreshadow or presage.
announce
herald
harbinger
annunciate
Portuguese
prever
Synonyms
Examples for "
call
"
call
promise
forecast
predict
anticipate
Examples for "
call
"
1
Alexander's lecture will
call
for reform in Europe, not exit from Europe.
2
Meat Industry Ireland members support your
call
for collaboration across the sector.
3
Political parties said it was too quick to
call
the election result.
4
A second
call
came in about 45 minutes later, Letten's statement said.
5
They
call
themselves 'the bucket list family' for a very good reason.
1
Technology offers great
promise
with 'intelligent borders'. Hunt was educated at Oxford.
2
Plans for the area hold the
promise
of better times to come.
3
Hill House has fallen far short of its original
promise
,
I think.
4
The early signs do not offer the expected level of
promise
,
however.
5
And yet 2015 had begun with great
promise
for Tunisia's tourism industry.
1
Conditions are
forecast
to deteriorate over coming days particularly in coastal areas.
2
However, the
forecast
now predicts the rain will continue past that point.
3
Did Recorded Future
forecast
Tunisian political violence in the summer of 2010?
4
Cost inflation this year is in line with managers'
forecast
,
said Premier.
5
However, the
forecast
was clouded by higher production costs and investment expenditure.
1
Each year, points vary and it's difficult to
predict
changes in advance.
2
However, there is currently no clear strategy to reliably
predict
HDACi sensitivity.
3
And right now, there's no way to
predict
which cases will progress.
4
Analysts now
predict
weeks of political horse-trading to form a new cabinet.
5
However, analysts
predict
that the markets will quickly discount the election results.
1
Trump said public health experts
anticipate
shortages of respirators for healthcare workers.
2
However, we don't
anticipate
a significant increase at this point in time.
3
He said: I do not
anticipate
a great political standoff about this.
4
Speculators
anticipate
consolidation in the sector as a result of lower business.
5
Never one to lose the moment, Barry said, I don't
anticipate
problems.
1
I decided to take that as a good
omen
and kept walking.
2
Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the
omen
.
3
It is a bad
omen
to wet the foot in these springs.
4
This is a good
omen
for the release of her next project.
5
The whelp, as an
omen
of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
1
His nomadic past doesn't exactly
bode
too well for South Africa's future.
2
Williamson said the data did not
bode
well for the coming months.
3
Analysts say a Democratic sweep could also
bode
well for emerging markets.
4
Analysts said the ruling could
bode
well for ExxonMobil's case at ICSID.
5
What people say does not
bode
well for the future of humanity.
1
Its clean air, water, and energy standards invariably
presage
similar efforts nationwide.
2
Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally
presage
labour union unrest.
3
But the softness in the Christmas air did not
presage
a thaw.
4
The decrease in expensive markets could
presage
broader weakness rent prices nationally.
5
The character and standing of the candidates seemed a
presage
of victory.
1
The following are a few of the accidental omens that
portend
ill:
2
None of these qualities would seem to
portend
the frenzy to come.
3
Take it, then, and perform what thy birds
portend
can be done.
4
All this made him uncomfortable, and seemed to
portend
a possible discord.
5
Atlee watched her, by no means certain what her gesture might
portend
.
1
Is the word of the
augur
at Brundisium beginning to be fulfilled?
2
How distinctly he remembered the age of the oracle and the
augur
!
3
All of this does not
augur
well for the future of the Group.
4
Bore a few
augur
holes in the sides of either box.
5
But this conscientious
augur
acts in reference to the auspices without his colleagues.
1
Aloes, without a flower,
betoken
long life: in flower,
betoken
a legacy.
2
His countenance expresses courage, and his well-set jaws
betoken
firmness and resolution.
3
And the simultaneous disappearance of Quast and the cats-whatdid that
betoken
?
4
This plea for wings does not necessarily
betoken
'a desire to depart.'
5
They
betoken
a new humility in Western Christianity born of experience.
1
Some observers believe there are danger signs that may
foreshadow
a melt-down.
2
Don't necessarily expect the outcome here to
foreshadow
the big one, however.
3
These papers often
foreshadow
where the rest of the world is going.
4
It seemed to
foreshadow
the relentless, inevitable approach of an endless night.
5
This could
foreshadow
a wider rebound in A-shares in the coming months.
1
I might be able to
forebode
for France, and for its ruler.
2
Yes, it surely must be the banshee, and what does it
forebode
?
3
You, too,
forebode
that in this visit I may lose her forever?
4
Do you now foresee, do you
forebode
what happened?-Yourbrother came in!-
5
What these things
forebode
,
if not disaster and ruin, 'tis hard to say.
1
By the same art he would
prognosticate
a principality to a scoundrel.
2
Send him out to
prognosticate
trouble to somebody, and he is happy.
3
When I heard these words I did
prognosticate
my miserie to come.
4
These criteria can be used to
prognosticate
and guide clinical decisions after recurrence.
5
Of the mineral wealth, it seems as yet dangerous to
prognosticate
.
1
The latest newspapers Redwood had did but vaguely
prefigure
these imminent things.
2
All three
prefigure
Kill Bill's central theme of wronged women seeking revenge.
3
Christ's millennial reign may
prefigure
the fulfillment of God's promises about Jerusalem's future.
4
And now that she could begin to sit up it did
prefigure
recovery.
5
Does it not
prefigure
the wayward and fantastic progress of a storm-tossed life?
1
Would to God I could
auspicate
good influences!
2
There is one thing I would mention which seems to
auspicate
the speedy development of the valley of the North Red River.
3
Never, surely, was a political career more impressively
auspicated
.
To make a prediction or prophecy.
abode
prophesy
foreshow
Usage of
foretell
in English
1
S&Ps changes may even
foretell
a coming upturn for banks, he said.
2
Could push-ups
foretell
the future and the state of a person's heart?
3
I expect the king can
foretell
he will have a great future.
4
No one at present can
foretell
the outcome of the European War.
5
But you can't
foretell
the future and you're not a mind reader.
6
Others said the prophet was an Egyptian, and could
foretell
the future.
7
But it was easy to
foretell
that he would perish by snakebite.
8
But the dramatic brightening could also
foretell
an end to the comet.
9
Perhaps it is we, for no Diviner can
foretell
its own demise.
10
How the following work may be received, I pretend not to
foretell
.
11
Under such conditions it did not need keen vision to
foretell
disaster.
12
Weather at sea, weather on the mountains, he could
foretell
it always.
13
What its future fate there will be no man can yet
foretell
.
14
But who can
foretell
the future, or predict the decrees of Fate?
15
Did he not
foretell
the devouring scourge by which we are visited?
16
When or how it shall come I will not attempt to
foretell
.
Other examples for "foretell"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
foretell
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
foretell the future
foretell events
foretell bad
foretell evil
foretell misfortune
More collocations
Translations for
foretell
Portuguese
prognosticar
pressagiar
prever
augurar
agourar
predizer
adivinhar
profetizar
pressentir
Catalan
augurar
presagiar
preveure
predir
pronosticar
anunciar
Spanish
prever
predecir
presagiar
vislumbrar
anunciar
Foretell
through the time
Foretell
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common