presage

Speech parts

1. presage - Noun

2. presage - Verb

Meaning

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.

To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.

To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

prognostic omen foreshadow portend portent augur bode sign predict token forecast prodigy foretell prognostication betoken
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Antonyms

axiom belief accuracy confidence assurance actuality
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Hypernyms

point signal sign indicate premonition foreboding

Hyponyms

threaten foreboding death knell auspice foreshow

Phrases with the word

to presage presage of the end

Derivatives

presaged presaging

Anagrams

sperage asperge

Examples

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises. Demosthenes

The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them. Stephen R. Lawhead

Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years,- The child of misery, baptized in tears. John Langhorne (poet)

These signs bode bad news Source: Internet

he looked for an omen before going into battle Source: Internet

Hence an eventual outcome could be very difficult to presage unless one is looking at the pre -1990 division of the country into two countries or a federation or confederation of divergent split regions if the eventual political solution thus dictates. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

presacral presacrifice presacrificial presage of the end presageful presagement