to prefigure

Examples

• All

• The pavilion prefigures what will be the mechanics of the community center.

  Academic text (2004)

• When healthcare is subject to a regime of profit-driven market logic, that prefigures everything else.

  Blog text (23)

• Marriage is bound up with institutions that prefigure a future: property rights, rights of inheritance, children, and their rights.

  Academic text (2011)

• Art is thus prefigured in the very processes of living.

  Academic text (2017)

• The complex arrangement of columns prefigures the final design.

  Academic text (1992)

• Every episode in a painstaking piece of fiction prefigures something still to come.

  Academic text (1998)

• Important responses to current questions about otherness and difference are already prefigured in her work.

  Academic text (2005)

• The narrative concludes by showing Marianne as fully integrated into her family and prefigures her future role as knowledge holder.

  Academic text (2014)

• And Christian slaves appropriated the story of Exodus as prefiguring their own history of bondage and future deliverance.

  Academic text (1992)

• Harlan's approach to consensus-based argumentation prefigures recent Eighth Amendment doctrine. Harlan assessed state and federal statutes.

  Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

A

to anticipate

vsto prefigure

293 3.7

To prepare for something before it happens

is about imagining or foreseeing rather than taking action

E

to envision

vsto prefigure

164 4.1

To picture something in your mind, often a possible future

focuses more on expecting or predicting real outcomes than on vivid images

F

to foresee

vsto prefigure

77 3.9

To know or expect something before it happens

leans toward imagining or considering future outcomes rather than certainty

P

to presage

vsto prefigure

• Literature

5 8.8

To show that something bad will happen

involves imagining or anticipating events not being an external sign

P

to previse

vsto prefigure

• Archaic

9.9

To know something before it happens

imagines possibilities in advance rather than only predicting

Antonyms

I

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

O

to overlook

243 2.9

To not notice someone or something you should see

How Predictive

to foresee

77 3.9

to predict

812 3.0

to prefigure

• Formal

2 7.1

to speculate

254 4.8

to imagine

∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology