Synonyms of presages

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noun

plural of presage

1

as in feels

a feeling that something bad will happen

I had a nagging presage that the results of my medical tests would not be good

Synonyms & Similar Words

• feels
• fears
• presentiments
• worries
• premonitions
• forebodings
• prognostications
• suspicions
• anxieties
• signs
• anticipations
• insights
• portents
• concerns
• intuitions
• omens
• auguries
• apprehensions
• impressions
• alarums
• doubts
• foreknowledges
• perturbations
• agitations
• disquiets
• alarms
• misgivings
• dreads
• presciences
• foresights
• care

2

as in heralds

something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event

the sight of the first robin is always a welcome presage of spring

Synonyms & Similar Words

• heralds
• hints
• predictions
• auspices
• portents
• omens
• forebodings
• suggestions
• auguries
• foreshadowings
• precursors
• forerunners
• harbingers
• straws in the wind
• bodings
• intimations
• prophecies
• badges
• prophesies
• forecasts
• foretastes
• marks
• inklings
• prognostications
• forewarnings
• notes
• tokens
• divinations

presages

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verb

present tense third-person singular of presage

as in predicts

to tell of or describe beforehand

people used to believe that a comet presaged a major event, such as the death of a king

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicts
• reads
• foretells
• anticipates
• augurs
• announces
• warns
• prophesies
• forecasts
• prognosticates
• calls
• portends
• foresees
• promises
• forebodes
• bodes
• forewarns
• vaticinates
• cautions
• alerts
• declares
• heralds
• proclaims
• forbodes
• foreknows
• divines

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• describes
• relates
• tells
• reports
• recounts
• narrates
• recites