Antonyms for foretelling

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fawr-tel, fohr-

Phonetic Transcription : fɔrˈtɛl, foʊr-

Definition of foretelling

Origin : c.1300, from fore- + tell (v.). Related: Foretold; foretelling.

verb predict, warn

Example sentences :

Beriah's pet idee was foretelling what the weather was going to be.
Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln

About them was grouped a large following, foretelling fresh developments.
Extract from : « Chinese Painters » by Raphael Petrucci

You have interrupted this young lady just when she was foretelling me most interesting things!
Extract from : « Carmen » by Prosper Merimee

Note first here, as we did in Scott, the concentrating and foretelling power.
Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin

Waken him now till they'll see did I tell any lie in my foretelling.
Extract from : « The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays » by William B. Yeats

As to that, mother, you are speaking of the past, not foretelling the future!
Extract from : « The Golden Grasshopper » by W.H.G. Kingston

Red Wing was famed for foretelling events at Prairie du Chien.
Extract from : « The Conquest » by Eva Emery Dye

Stella is a prophet, by foretelling so very positively that all would be well.
Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift

He seemed to be foretelling events with an authority that could not be doubted.
Extract from : « The Lone Ranger Rides » by Fran Striker

What we have heard this evening may be a foretelling of victory.
Extract from : « For Faith and Freedom » by Walter Besant

Synonyms for foretelling

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