augurs
Hints at outcomes
Augurs functions as both noun and verb.
An augur was a Roman religious official who interpreted omens—particularly the flight patterns of birds—to divine whether the gods favored proposed actions.
The verb to augur means to foretell or serve as an omen: The early reviews augur well for the film's success.
Something that augurs poorly suggests trouble ahead.
The related noun augury refers to the practice of divination or to an omen itself.
Those who foretell events
- seersThose claiming foresight
- divinersThose who foretell events
- oraclesSources of divine guidance
- prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
clairvoyants · sibyls · astrologers · prognosticators · visionaries · mediums · shamans · fortune-tellers
Sign of future calamity
- presageIndicate beforehand
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- omenProphetic indicator
- signMark conveying information
foreboding · foreshadowing · premonition · warning · herald · prophecy · prediction · prognostication
soothsayers
Those who foretell events
prophets · clairvoyants · sibyls · astrologers · prognosticators · visionaries · mediums · shamans · fortune-tellers · mystics
portent
Sign of future calamity
sign · foreboding · foreshadowing · premonition · warning · herald · prophecy · prediction · prognostication · divination
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- Roman governmentconsul, consuls, senate, tribune, senators
- Roman societypatrician, patricians, plebeian, plebeians, citizen
- SeersCassandra, Tiresias, sibyl, oracle of Delphi, soothsayer
augursconfirms
Establishes as fact
proves · establishes · verifies · demonstrates · guarantees
augursscientists
Systematic knowledge seekers
empiricists · skeptics · rationalists · researchers · analysts
inaugurate, inauguration, inaugural, augur, inaugurated, augury, inaugurating, inaugurator, inaugurations