forewarners
Those signaling ahead
Forewarners are people or things that give advance warning of something to come.
A forewarner alerts others to approaching danger, trouble, or change before it arrives: The economists served as forewarners of the recession.
The term can apply to signs or omens as well as people: Dark clouds were forewarners of the storm.
Proclaimers of sacred truth
- seersThose claiming foresight
- oraclesSources of divine guidance
- soothsayersThose who foretell events
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
diviners · augurs · harbingers · predictors · prognosticators · heralds · portents · omens
Things preceding others
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- red flagsIndicators something's wrong
- premonitionsIntuitive feelings about future events
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
bellwethers · leading indicators · advance notice · telltale signs · presages · foreboding · prodromes · previews
Guards keeping watch
- watchmenGuards of property
- scoutsInformation gatherers ahead
- lookoutsThose who watch ahead
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
alarmists · whistleblowers · informants · tipsters · monitors · observers · patrols · reconnaissance
prophets
Proclaimers of sacred truth
- seersThose claiming foresight
- oraclesSources of divine guidance
- soothsayersThose who foretell events
visionaries · diviners · augurs · harbingers · predictors · prognosticators · heralds · portents · omens · apocalyptic
precursors
Things preceding others
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- red flagsIndicators something's wrong
- premonitionsIntuitive feelings about future events
foreshadowing · bellwethers · leading indicators · advance notice · telltale signs · presages · foreboding · prodromes · previews · antecedents
sentinels
Guards keeping watch
guards · alarmists · whistleblowers · informants · tipsters · monitors · observers · patrols · reconnaissance · spotters
forewarnerssecond-guessers
Those questioning prior decisions
chroniclers · reporters · armchair critics · historians · documentarians
forewarnersdeceivers
Those who mislead intentionally
concealers · misleaders · trappers · ambushers · enablers
- forewarned is forearmedKnowing ahead lets you prepare