'Foretell' definitions:
Definition of 'foretell'
(from WordNet)
verb
verb
Make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
verb
Definition of 'Foretell'
From: GCIDE
- Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i. To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Foretell'
From: GCIDE
- Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretold; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretelling.] To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. [1913 Webster]
- Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. --C. Middleton.
- Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'foretell'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adumbrate,
- announce,
- anticipate,
- apprehend,
- approach,
- augur,
- await,
- be destined,
- be fated,
- be imminent,
- be to be,
- be to come,
- bode,
- call,
- cast a horoscope,
- cast a nativity,
- come,
- come on,
- declare,
- disclose,
- divine,
- divulge,
- dope,
- dope out,
- dowse for water,
- draw near,
- draw on,
- expect,
- forebode,
- forecast,
- foreknow,
- foresee,
- foreshadow,
- foreshow,
- foretoken,
- forewarn,
- fortune-tell,
- guess,
- hariolate,
- hope,
- lie ahead,
- look for,
- look forward to,
- loom,
- make a prediction,
- make a prognosis,
- make a prophecy,
- near,
- plan,
- plot,
- portend,
- predict,
- prefigure,
- presage,
- proclaim,
- prognosticate,
- project,
- promise,
- prophesy,
- read palms,
- read tea leaves,
- read the future,
- reveal,
- soothsay,
- speculate,
- tell fortunes,
- tell the future,
- threaten,
- vaticinate,
- warn