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prɪˈdɪktpre·dict

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.9 / 17 votes

  1. predict

    "Persons or things augur; persons only forebode or presage; things only betoken or portend." Crabb English Synonymes. We augur well for a voyage from past good fortune and a good start; we presage success from the stanchness of the ship and the skill of the captain. We forebode misfortune either from circumstances that betoken failure, or from gloomy fancies for which we could not give a reason. Dissipation among the officers and mutiny among the crew portend disaster. Divine has reference to the ancient soothsayers' arts (as in Gen. xliv, 5, 15), and refers rather to reading hearts than to reading the future. We say I could not divine his motive, or his intention.

    Synonyms:
    augur, betoken, bode, divine, forebode, foretell, portend, presage, prognosticate, prophesy

    Antonyms:
    assure, calculate, demonstrate, determine, establish, insure, make sure, prove, settle, warrant

    Preposition:
    I augur from all circumstances a prosperous result; I augur ill of the enterprise; "augurs ill to the rights of the people," Thomas Jefferson Writings vol. ii, p. 506. [Taylor, Walton & Maberley '53.] I augur well, or this augurs well, for your cause.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. predict

    Synonyms:
    prophesy, foretell, forecast, prognosticate, forebode, foreshadow

Princeton's WordNet2.9 / 15 votes

  1. predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promiseverb

    make a prediction about; tell in advance

    "Call the outcome of an election"

    Synonyms:
    forestall, augur, forebode, foreshadow, scream, prognosticate, counter, promise, phone, yell, foreknow, shout out, foretell, cry, herald, call in, auspicate, expect, holler, call up, betoken, call off, assure, call, look for, send for, previse, anticipate, address, visit, portend, shout, bode, foresee, look to, announce, presage, name, hollo, squall, bid, ring, omen, forecast, harbinger, telephone, annunciate, prefigure

  2. bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predictverb

    indicate by signs

    "These signs bode bad news"

    Synonyms:
    herald, bespeak, indicate, promise, figure, betoken, announce, count on, annunciate, bode, foreshadow, omen, point, harbinger, estimate, portend, call, prognosticate, anticipate, reckon, augur, calculate, foretell, forebode, prefigure, signal, forecast, auspicate, presage

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  1. prophesize

    to state or estimate, esp. on the basis of knowledge or reasoning, that (an action, event, etc.) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something; to forecast, foretell, prophesy. (oed)

    Submitted by anonymous on January 12, 2014  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.5 / 2 votes

  1. predictverb

    Synonyms:
    foretell, prophesy, prognosticate, presage, augur, divine, forebode, VATICINATE

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. predictverb

    Synonyms:
    prophesy, foretell, prognosticate, forebode, portend, augur, presage, vaticinate

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD3.7 / 3 votes

  1. PREDICT

    Synonyms:
    (1) Comparison of PRE-Dilatation vs Direct Stenting In Coronary Treatment (2) Prevention des Restenoses par Elisor, apres Dilatation Coronaire Transluminale J Am Coll Cardiol 1997 Oct;30(4):863-9 (3) Prospective Randomized Evaluation of Diltiazem

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How to use predict in a sentence?

  1. Valentin Galardi:

    We are at the precursor of an explosive development in the industry. In the short term it would be risky to predict growth, but the numbers may be surprising given measures that could unblock current regulations, we have as a short-term goal that the design for an appropriate law gets finished, so mutual funds have the space they need to grow in Argentina, including the appearance of new assets to invest in.

  2. Rick Fleming:

    If congressional action is needed, it should be used to press the SEC to move forward in its efforts to make disclosure more accessible and useful for investors, cost to issuers is a legitimate concern, but I think we can safely predict that smart people will quickly develop ways to bring those costs down significantly.

  3. Professor Ugail:

    We can actually look at a child's pictures, we can incorporate all the pictures available, we can also add information from parents, parental facial features, grandparental facial features if available and also other relatives in the family. So we can take all that information so the accuracy that we can predict would be much, much better compared to the current existing technology.

  4. Paul Beardsley:

    Disney has had a fundamental role in the development of two forms of entertainment -- full-length animated movies and theme parks, no-one can predict exactly what might arise as new forms of entertainment in the future. But it's certain that society is just at the start of a robot revolution, and my work is in developing new types of entertainment robots.

  5. Josh Schwerin:

    We can't predict the future of this pandemic, but Trump's disastrous handling of the response so far makes him more vulnerable everywhere regardless of demographics.


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