Word Meanings - PREDICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon. Syn. -- Prophecy; prognostication; foreboding; augury; divination; soothsaying; vaticination.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREDICTION)

• Augury
• Prophecy
• prediction
• divination
• conjecture
• omen
• prognostication
• Divination
• Prediction
• sorcery
• magic
• witchcraft
• augury
• omens
• Vaticination

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREDICTION)

• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction

Related words: (words related to PREDICTION)

• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• MAGIC; MAGICAL
  1. Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency. 2. Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• MAGICALLY
  In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.
• SORCERY
  Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton. (more info)
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• CALCULATION
  1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• CONJECTURE
  An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
• VATICINATION
  Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.
• PROOF
  A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
• PROPHECY
  A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29. 3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction. (more info) 1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an
• AUGURY
  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• MAGIC
  A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment,
• RECKONING
  1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Sandys. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. Even reckoning makes
• MAGICIAN
  One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
• DEAD-RECKONING
  See A
• BULLET-PROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• WATERPROOF
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• BOMBPROOF
  Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.