foretold
Announced in advance
Foretold is the past tense and past participle of foretell—to predict or prophesy something before it happens.
The word carries an air of fate or destiny: The oracle foretold his downfall.
What is foretold feels inevitable, as though written in advance: Everything happened exactly as she had foretold.
Prediction of future conditions
- predictedDeclared in advance
- anticipatedExpected in advance
- projectedCast outward or forecast
- prognosisPredicted disease course
foreseen · expected · foreknown · envisioned · precognition · extrapolated · calculated · divined
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- presageIndicate beforehand
- signMark conveying information
warning · foreshadowing · forewarning · premonition · foreboding · auspice · herald · indicator
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
divination · revelation · vision · clairvoyant · sibyl · prognostication · apocalyptic · messianic
Foretelling of future events
- fatePredetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
providence · kismet · karma · fortune · lot · inevitability · determinism · predetermination
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- predictedDeclared in advance
- anticipatedExpected in advance
- projectedCast outward or forecast
prognosis · foreseen · expected · foreknown · envisioned · precognition · extrapolated · calculated · divined · presaged
portent
Sign of future calamity
sign · warning · foreshadowing · forewarning · premonition · foreboding · auspice · herald · indicator · token
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
soothsayer · divination · revelation · vision · clairvoyant · sibyl · prognostication · apocalyptic · messianic · eschatology
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
predestination · providence · kismet · karma · fortune · lot · inevitability · determinism · predetermination · ordained
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- predestinationpredestination, foreordination, preordination, election, foreknowledge
foretoldrecounted
Narrated past events
recalled · remembered · hindsight · chronicled · recorded
foretoldunforeseen
Not predicted or expected
unexpected · unanticipated · unpredicted · surprising · unannounced
told, retell, untold, foretell, retold, retelling, retells, foretelling, foretells