to foreshadow

Examples

• All

• Now, the Bible reflects, broadly speaking, a symbolic movement through 3 ages, while foreshadowing a 4th.

  Zeitgeist (2007)

• Men's courses in life foreshadow certain ends.

  A Christmas Carol (2009)

• And this might foreshadow some of what we get into later on regarding your current research on education.

• What details in the real world foreshadow those in the dream world?

  Fiction book (1999)

• How could you have foreshadowed this is where it's heading?

• So, Yep, I, I hope that doesn't foreshadow what this year is bringing for me.

• It's foreshadowing the fact that he's gonna come back from the dead.

  Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary (2017)

• The following examples demonstrate that the introductory descriptions of women foreshadow their contributions to the plot.

  Academic text (1997)

• The main ideas in the Cairo speech were foreshadowed in an article Obama wrote for Foreign Affairs in 2007.

  Academic text (2011)

• Your battle foreshadows America's triumph over the forces of terror.

  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

Synonyms

P

to predict

vsto foreshadow

812 3.0

To say what will happen in the future

offers a suggestive warning rather than a definite prediction

F

to foresee

vsto foreshadow

77 3.9

To know or expect something before it happens

gives an external sign or warning rather than inner certainty

F

to forecast

vsto foreshadow

54 2.5

To say what will probably happen using information, for example about weather or business

gives an indirect hint rather than an analytical estimate

F

to foretell

vsto foreshadow

41 7.0

To say what will happen in the future

gives a simpler hint rather than declaring exact future events

A

to announce

vsto foreshadow

38 3.9

To show that something will happen soon, often by a sign you notice

offers a general signal or hint rather than a formal declaration

P

to prophesy

vsto foreshadow

28 7.4

To say what will happen in the future, often claiming it comes from a god

gives a general human warning rather than a divinely inspired revelation

B

to bode

vsto foreshadow

16 7.2

To be a sign that something good or bad will happen

gives a neutral hint about future events without moral valence

P

to portend

vsto foreshadow

• Formal

13 8.4

To show that something, often bad, will probably happen

signals future events more broadly rather than stressing calamity

A

to anticipate

vsto foreshadow

7 5.8

To happen earlier and show what will come later

provides a sign pointing ahead rather than merely happening earlier

P

to presage

vsto foreshadow

• Literature

5 8.8

To show that something bad will happen

gives a milder suggestion rather than a clear omen

A

to augur

vsto foreshadow

4 8.6

To be a sign that something will happen

offers a general indication rather than a specific forecast or omen

P

to prognosticate

vsto foreshadow

• Formal

3 9.3

To say what will happen in the future using clues

offers a general signal rather than a technical or expert prediction

B

to betoken

vsto foreshadow

• Archaic

1 9.3

To be a sign of something

suggests future occurrence in a broader, less literal way

P

to prefigure

vsto foreshadow

• Literature

1 8.0

To be a sign that something will happen later

gives a plain warning or hint rather than a prior representation

A

to annunciate

vsto foreshadow

• Literature

9.9

To show that something will happen soon

gives a gentler suggestion rather than a definite overt sign

A

to auspicate

vsto foreshadow

• Archaic

9.9

To say what will happen by reading signs

gives a plain warning or hint without ritual or omen use

F

to forebode

vsto foreshadow

8.4

To seem to show that something bad will happen

gives a neutral indication rather than focusing on bad outcomes

F

to foreshow

vsto foreshadow

• Archaic

9.9

Predict an event from a sign or dream

gives a general hint rather than claiming divine revelation

V

to vaticinate

vsto foreshadow

• Archaic

9.9

To say what will happen in the future because someone has spiritual power

gives ordinary signs or warnings rather than supernatural pronouncements

P

to previse

vsto foreshadow

• Archaic

9.9

To know something before it happens

gives a sign rather than claiming certain prior knowledge

How Predictive

to predict

812 3.0

to foreshadow

16 6.2

presage

• Literature

1 8.7

to hint

136 2.0

to suggest

∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology