prophesy
Declare future events
To prophesy is to predict future events, especially by divine inspiration or supernatural insight: The oracle prophesied the king's downfall.
Religious figures prophesy when delivering messages they believe come from God.
More loosely, anyone making predictions prophesies: Critics prophesied disaster for the new policy.
The verb is spelled with an s; the noun prophecy ends in c.
Prediction of future conditions
- foretellPredict future events
- predictDeclare future outcomes
- prognosticateForetell future events
- foreseePredict future events
anticipate · presage · portend · foreknow · divine · augur · vaticinate · forebode
One who foreshadows
- portentSign of future calamity
- signMark conveying information
- warningAlert about danger
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
foreboding · herald · prodigy · token · foretoken · adumbration · auspice · boding
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
sibyl · clairvoyant · pythia · shaman · mystic · druid · priestess · medium
Surprising disclosed truth
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- messiahProphesied liberator figure
tribulation · rapture · second coming · end times · antichrist · millennium · resurrection · Daniel
State officially
- announceState something officially
- proclaimDeclare officially and openly
- heraldOfficial news announcer
- preachDeliver religious discourse
utter · speak · pronounce · declaim · exhort · warn · admonish · testify
Visible supernatural manifestation
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
visionary · hallucination · phantasm · waking dream · night vision · seeing · insight · epiphany
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- foretellPredict future events
- predictDeclare future outcomes
- prognosticateForetell future events
foresee · anticipate · presage · portend · foreknow · divine · augur · vaticinate · forebode · forewarn
harbinger
One who foreshadows
foreshadowing · foreboding · herald · prodigy · token · foretoken · adumbration · auspice · boding · indicator
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
divination · sibyl · clairvoyant · pythia · shaman · mystic · druid · priestess · medium · psychic
revelation
Surprising disclosed truth
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
messiah · tribulation · rapture · second coming · end times · antichrist · millennium · resurrection · Daniel · Ezekiel
declare
State officially
- announceState something officially
- proclaimDeclare officially and openly
- heraldOfficial news announcer
preach · utter · speak · pronounce · declaim · exhort · warn · admonish · testify · reveal
apparition
Visible supernatural manifestation
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
revelation · visionary · hallucination · phantasm · waking dream · night vision · seeing · insight · epiphany · mystical experience
- spellsspell, cast, conjure, curse, enchantment
- worship verbspray, bless, anoint, baptize, consecrate
- foretellingpredict, foretell, foresee, forecast, divine
- nativitynativity set, baby Jesus, Christ child, Bethlehem, Mary
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
- theologyecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, God, dogmatics
- false prophetDeceiver claiming divine insight
- ancient propheciesForetelling from antiquity
- self-fulfilling prophecyBelief causing its own realization
- self-fulfilling propheciesPredictions causing their own realization
- prophet of doomForeteller of calamity
- prophetic visionForeknowledge of future events
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