prediction
Statement about tomorrow
A prediction is a statement about what will happen in the future: Her prediction about the election proved correct.
Predictions range from scientific forecasts based on data to casual guesses about outcomes.
The word implies some basis for the claim, however slight—distinguishing it from mere wishes or random speculation.
The model's predictions were remarkably accurate.
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
- conjectureGuess from limited facts
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- estimationApproximate value judgment
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
inference · deduction · approximation · guesstimate · educated guess · theory · postulation · surmise
Advance sense of future events
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
inkling · hunch · inner voice · feeling · sense · anticipation · presentiment · foreboding
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
prognostication · foretelling · revelation · apocalypse · visionary · doomsaying · Nostradamus · sibyl
One who foreshadows
- portentSign of future calamity
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
- signMark conveying information
warning · forewarning · auspice · foreboding · herald · foretoken · premonition · ill-fated
Predictor of personal fate
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
- tarotDivination card set
- crystal ballFortune-teller's viewing sphere
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
numerology · horoscope · medium · tea leaves · zodiac · shaman · séance · divination
Atmospheric state outdoors
- meteorologyStudy of atmospheric phenomena
- climatePrevailing atmospheric conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- trendDirection of change
modeling · outlook · probability · scenario · estimation · extrapolation · simulation · analytics
speculation
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
- conjectureGuess from limited facts
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- estimationApproximate value judgment
assumption · inference · deduction · approximation · guesstimate · educated guess · theory · postulation · surmise · supposition
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
foresight · inkling · hunch · inner voice · feeling · sense · anticipation · presentiment · foreboding · clairvoyance
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
soothsayer · prognostication · foretelling · revelation · apocalypse · visionary · doomsaying · Nostradamus · sibyl · augury
harbinger
One who foreshadows
- portentSign of future calamity
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
sign · warning · forewarning · auspice · foreboding · herald · foretoken · premonition · ill-fated · augury
fortune-teller
Predictor of personal fate
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
- tarotDivination card set
- crystal ballFortune-teller's viewing sphere
astrology · numerology · horoscope · medium · tea leaves · zodiac · shaman · séance · divination · runes
weather
Atmospheric state outdoors
- meteorologyStudy of atmospheric phenomena
- climatePrevailing atmospheric conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
trend · modeling · outlook · probability · scenario · estimation · extrapolation · simulation · analytics · algorithm
- literacyliteracy, reading, spelling, alphabet, writing
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- guessesguess, conjecture, supposition, speculation, surmise
- guessingguess, hypothesis, conjecture, speculation, hunch
- Predictionforecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation, prognosis
- Sports Broadcastingplay-by-play, color commentary, announcer, commentator, analyst
predictionhindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · history · record · recollection · chronicle
predictionproof
Demonstration of truth
fact · certainty · truth · verification · confirmation
predictionobservation
Attentive watching or remark
measurement · calculation · analysis · deduction · witnessing
- predictive textAlgorithm suggesting likely words
- weather predictionAnticipated atmospheric conditions
- text predictionAnticipating typed input
- earthquake predictionForecasting when tremors strike
- climate predictionProjecting future atmospheric conditions
- astrological predictionFortune based on planets