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Definition of Foretell
1. Verb. Foreshadow or presage.
Generic synonyms: Tell
Derivative terms: Annunciator, Harbinger, Herald
2. Verb. Make a prediction about; tell in advance. "Call the outcome of an election"
Specialized synonyms: Read, Outguess, Second-guess, Augur, Bet, Wager, Calculate, Forecast, Prophesy, Vaticinate
Generic synonyms: Guess, Hazard, Pretend, Venture
Derivative terms: Anticipatory, Foreboding, Foreboding, Foretelling, Prediction, Predictive, Predictor, Prognosis, Prognostication, Prognostication, Prognosticative, Prognosticator
3. Verb. Indicate by signs. "These signs bode bad news"
Specialized synonyms: Threaten, Foreshow
Generic synonyms: Bespeak, Betoken, Indicate, Point, Signal
Derivative terms: Augur, Auspice, Forecast, Foreshadowing, Omen, Portent, Predictive, Prefigurative, Presage, Prognosis, Prognostication
Definition of Foretell
1. v. t. To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
2. v. i. To utter predictions.
Definition of Foretell
1. Verb. To tell what's going to happen in the future, especially but not necessarily by having the power of clairvoyance and using it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foretell
1. to tell of or about in advance [v -TOLD, -TELLING, -TELLS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foretell
Literary usage of Foretell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... a nervous or cerebral modification of the subject, which modification it
attributes to a malady of the nervous system—hysteria. and foretell the future. ..."
2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"against the common enemy—and no one living can foretell the issue, because no
one knows the extent of capacity and ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"For these two Prophets, David and Zachary, manifestly did foretell the particular
punishment of crucifixion. It was therefore sufficiently adumbrated by ..."
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