omens
Hints of fate
Omens are signs believed to foretell future events, especially misfortune.
A black cat crossing your path, a broken mirror, an owl's call—these are traditional omens.
The word often appears with modifiers: a bad omen, an omen of things to come.
Unlike prophecies, omens are read from ordinary events rather than spoken by seers.
Something that omens ill bodes badly for the future.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foretokenProphetic indication
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
prognostic · herald · indicator · signal · auspicious · ill-boding · foreboding · forewarning
Announcing future events
- predictionForecast of coming events
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- apocalypticPertaining to ultimate devastation
biblical · Nostradamus · Cassandra · doom · fate · destiny · fulfillment · scripture
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- sibylAncient female prophet
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
augur · diviner · fortune-teller · clairvoyant · prognostication · scrying · entrails · runes
portent
Sign of future calamity
augury · prognostic · herald · indicator · signal · auspicious · ill-boding · foreboding · forewarning · foreshadowing
foretelling
Announcing future events
- predictionForecast of coming events
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
apocalyptic · biblical · Nostradamus · Cassandra · doom · fate · destiny · fulfillment · scripture · vision
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
soothsayer · augur · diviner · fortune-teller · clairvoyant · prognostication · scrying · entrails · runes · reading
ravens
Large black scavenging birds
eclipses · curse · jinx · hex · blessing · charm · amulet · talisman · taboo · folklore
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- omensportent, portents, signs, augury, harbinger
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- Balkan folklorefolk beliefs, folk customs, superstitions, magical creatures, vampires
- European Folkloremaypole, Morris dancing, folk dancing, folk costume, folk costumes
omenscoincidences
Unplanned corresponding occurrences
random events · accidents · happenstance · flukes · noise
omensrecords
Stored data or albums
histories · explanations · postmortems · hindsight · retrospectives
omensevidence
Facts supporting truth
data · facts · proof · hard evidence · scientific observations
- bad omenSign foretelling misfortune
- good omenFavorable sign of future
- death omenSign predicting someone's passing
- ill omenSign predicting misfortune
- The OmenSeventies horror classic