augury
Reading bird flights
Augury is the practice of reading omens or signs to predict the future—originally from observing birds, now any method of divination.
By extension, an augury is an omen itself or a prediction drawn from one: The economic data offered no clear augury of what lay ahead.
The word carries a literary, slightly archaic flavor.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
- foretokenProphetic indication
herald · boding · sign · warning · indicator · signal · premonition · forewarning
Internal digestive organs
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- sibylAncient female prophet
- pythiaHigh-energy physics simulator
seer · prophetess · scrying · auspices · Roman · priestly · ritual · sacred
Forecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- diviningPerceiving through supernatural means
revelation · vision · foresight · precognition · prevision · clairvoyance · oracle · pronouncement
Suggesting something bad approaches
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- misgivingUneasy feeling of doubt
portentous · dark · sinister · ill-omened · menacing · threatening · baleful · inauspicious
portent
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
foretoken · herald · boding · sign · warning · indicator · signal · premonition · forewarning · precursor
entrails
Internal digestive organs
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- sibylAncient female prophet
pythia · seer · prophetess · scrying · auspices · Roman · priestly · ritual · sacred · chickens
prediction
Forecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
divining · revelation · vision · foresight · precognition · prevision · clairvoyance · oracle · pronouncement · utterance
ominous
Suggesting something bad approaches
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
misgiving · portentous · dark · sinister · ill-omened · menacing · threatening · baleful · inauspicious · dire
favorable
Inclined toward approval
- promisingShowing signs of success
- propitiousFavorable for success
- fortunateEnjoying favorable circumstances
hopeful · bright · encouraging · positive · good · blessed · lucky · golden · opportune · benign
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- fortunelucky, luck, fortune, fate, destiny
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- Predictionprediction, forecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
augurycertainty
Total absence of doubt
proof · fact · evidence · verification · hindsight
auguryhistory
Record of past events
retrospection · hindsight · postmortem · historical analysis · chronicle
auguryscience
Systematic study through observation
empiricism · scientific method · logical deduction · evidence-based reasoning · skepticism
inaugurate, inauguration, inaugural, augur, inaugurated, inaugurating, augurs, inaugurator, inaugurators