What is another word for presage?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈɛsɪd͡ʒ] (IPA)

Presage is a verb that means to predict or foretell a future event. There are several synonyms for this word, including prophesy, forewarn, prognosticate, augur, herald, and portend. Prophesy refers to a prediction made by a divine being or a prophet, while forewarn implies a warning about a coming danger or difficulty. Prognosticate emphasizes a scientific approach to predicting future events, and augur refers to a prediction based on signs or omens. Herald suggests a prediction of something important or significant, while portend indicates a prediction of something usually negative or ominous. Overall, these synonyms for presage help convey the idea of predicting what will happen in the future.

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What are the hypernyms for Presage?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Presage?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the opposite words for presage?

Antonyms for the word "presage" are words that have the opposite meaning of it. Some antonyms for presage include "dismiss", "neglect", "ignore", "neglige", "waive", "overlook", "disavow", "disregard", "disown" and "disclaim". These words indicate a lack of concern or attention to a particular issue or problem that presage might signify. Using antonyms of presage can be useful in sentence construction to express completely opposite meanings. By selecting the right antonyms, one can create a sentence that highlights the contrast between two ideas or situations. Antonyms of presage provide a way to describe the absence of warning or forecasting.

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Usage examples for Presage

Alison leaned against the counter with a sudden presage of disaster.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
It was a mere trifle, but it seemed like a presage of some trouble to the house, seen as it was by those who approached, three of the party being in that unreal, uncomfortable state suffered by all who are roused from their sleep to hear that there is "something wrong."
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
As Henrietta stood gazing upon the rapidly receding cliffs of France, did any foreboding of the future come over her, any presage of coming grief such as weighed upon the heart of her husband's grandmother, Mary of Scotland, on a similar occasion?
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes

Famous quotes with Presage

  • FOUNDERS QUOTES ON FOUNDING PRINCIPLES Individual Liberty Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. – John Adams, 1765 Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. – In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness. – James Madison, Essays for the National Gazette, 1792
    James Wilson
  • The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
    Stephen R. Lawhead
  • Cold on Canadian hills or Minden’s plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years,— The child of misery, baptized in tears.
    John Langhorne (poet)
  • Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late And studying all the summer night Her matchless songs does meditate;Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses's fall;Ye glow-worms whose officious flame To wandering mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim And after foolish fires do stray;Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Since juliana here is come, For she my mind hath so displaced That I shall never find my home.
    Andrew Marvell

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