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  • 51type — Synonyms and related words: Platonic form, Platonic idea, adumbration, aesthetic form, affinity, alien, allegory, alphabetize, analyze, animus, antetype, antitype, aptitude, archetype, area, arrange, art form, ascender, assort, augury, auspice,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 52warning — Synonyms and related words: admonishing, admonition, admonitory, advice, advising, advisory, advocacy, alerting, augural, blackmail, briefing, bulldozing, call, call for, caution, cautionary, cautioning, caveat, claim, clue, commination,… …

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  • 53prognostication — prog·nos·ti·ca·tion || prÉ‘g nÉ‘stɪ keɪʃn /prÉ’g nÉ’ n. divination, act of prophesying; act of foreshowing, prediction, act of forecasting …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 54prognostications — prog·nos·ti·ca·tion || prÉ‘g nÉ‘stɪ keɪʃn /prÉ’g nÉ’ n. divination, act of prophesying; act of foreshowing, prediction, act of forecasting …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 55prognostication — n. 1. Act of prognosticating, foreshowing, foretelling, presage, prediction. 2. Augury, prediction, vaticination, prophecy, indication, foretoken, previous sign, portent, foreboding …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 56presage — I. v. a. 1. Forebode, divine, foreknow, have a presentiment of. 2. Foretell, predict, prophesy, soothsay, bode, portend, foreshow, indicate, betoken, foretoken, prognosticate, augur. See vaticinate. II. n. 1. Omen, sign, prognostic, augury,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 57prognostic — I. a. Foreshowing, foretokening. II. n. 1. Sign, token, presage, omen, indication, augury, foreboding, prognostication. 2. Foretelling, prediction, prophecy. 3. Symptom, indication …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 58shadow — I. n. 1. Shade, umbrage. 2. Darkness, obscurity, gloom, shade. 3. Shelter, cover, protection, security. 4. Image, adumbration, representation, prefiguration, foreshowing. 5. Spirit, ghost, shade, phantom. 6. Image, portrait, reflection. II …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 59foretell — foretell, predict, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode are comparable when meaning to tell something before it happens through special knowledge or occult power. Foretell and predict are frequently interchangeable …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 60ominous — adj 1. portentous, foreboding, bodeful, ill boding, boding evil, ill omened, of evil portent; inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising, unfortunate, unlucky, ill fated, ill starred, star crossed, doomed from the start; threatening,… …

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