All omen synonyms
oΒ·men
O o noun omen
- sign β a token; indication.
- portent β an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- warning β the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
- forecast β to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- premonition β a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
- augury β An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
- foretoken β a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
- presage β a presentiment or foreboding.
- harbinger β a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- indication β anything serving to indicate or point out, as a sign or token.
- auspice β patronage or guidance (esp in the phrase under the auspices of)
- boding β an omen; foreboding
- foreboding β a prediction; portent.
- prognostic β of or relating to prognosis.
- prognostication β the act of prognosticating.
- prophecy β the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- straw β a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- bodement β a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- writing on the wall β writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
verb omen
- telegraph β an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- predict β to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- preindicate β to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
- foretokening β Indication in advance.
- forespeak β to predict; foretell.
- promise β a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- size up β the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything: the size of a farm; the size of the fish you caught.
- make book β to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- betoken β If something betokens something else, it is a sign of this thing.
- forerun β to run in front of; come before; precede.
- premonish β to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- foreshow β to show beforehand.
- portend β to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- forebode β to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend: clouds that forebode a storm.
- psych out β to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- soothsay β to foretell events; predict.
- forerunning β Present participle of forerun.
- show signs of β indicate possibility of
- bode β If something bodes ill, it makes you think that something bad will happen in the future. If something bodes well, it makes you think that something good will happen.
- figure out β a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- foreshadow β to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.