Meaning of PREDICT
| Pronunciation: | | pree'dikt
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- [v] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
- [v] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
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| | Synonyms: | | anticipate, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, call, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate, promise |
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| | See Also: | | bespeak, bet, calculate, foreshow, guess, hazard, indicate, outguess, point, prophesy, read, secondguess, signal, threaten, vaticinate, venture, wager | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pre*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Predicted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Predicting}.] [L. praedictus, p. p. of praedicere to
predict; prae before + dicere to say, tell. See {Diction},
and cf. {Preach}.]
To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to
presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of
a comet.
Syn: To foretell; prophesy; prognosticate; presage; forebode;
foreshow; bode.
\Pre*dict"\, n.
A prediction. [Obs.] --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, auspicate, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bet, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, conclude, conjecture, contemplate, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, envisage, envision, expect, forebode, forecast, foreglimpse, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretaste, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, gamble, gather, guess, hariolate, have a hunch, have an intimation, hazard a conjecture, hint, hope, infer, intimate, judge, lie ahead, look ahead, look beyond, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, near, omen, plan, plot, portend, prefigure, presage, presume, prognosticate, project, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, see ahead, see beforehand, shadow, shadow forth, soothsay, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, think, threaten, vaticinate |
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