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Antonyms for handwriting on wall
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : hand-rahy-ting |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhændˌraɪ tɪŋ |
- accusation
- beginning
- birth
- blessing
- boon
- building
- calm
- cause
- commencement
- construction
- creation
- doom
- fortune
- good fortune
- good luck
- good omen
- happiness
- heedlessness
- join
- knowledge
- luck
- miracle
- misfortune
- misinformation
- neglect
- obscurity
- opening
- origin
- providence
- source
- start
- success
- trust
- whole
- wonder
Definition of handwriting on wall
Origin :- c.1500, from hand (n.) + writing, translating Latin manuscriptum. Hand in the sense of "handwriting, style of writing" is from late 14c.
- An ordinary note in his [Horace Greeley's] handwriting is said to have been used for a long time as a railroad pass, then as a servant's recommendation, and finally taken to a drug-store as a doctor's prescription. ["Frank Leslie's Magazine," August 1884]
- As in kismet : noun fate, fortune
- As in portent : noun indication, forewarning
- As in premonition : noun feeling that an event is about to occur
- As in presentiment : noun anticipation, expectation
- As in sign : noun indication, evidence
- As in warning : noun notice of possible occurrence
- As in sign of things to come : noun omen
- As in handwriting on the wall : noun impending misfortune
- As in signification : noun sign
- As in doom : noun fate or decision, usually unpleasant
- As in fate : noun predetermined course
- As in foreboding : noun misgiving, bad omen
- As in predestinate : verb fate
- As in predestine : verb fate
Synonyms for handwriting on wall
- admonition
- advice
- alarm
- alert
- annihilation
- anxiety
- apprehension
- apprehensiveness
- assurance
- augury
- auspice
- bad vibes
- badge
- beacon
- bell
- bodement
- boding
- break
- calamity
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- caution
- caveat
- chance
- chill
- circumstance
- clue
- conclusion
- condemnation
- consequence
- cup
- danger sign
- death
- decree
- destination
- destine
- destiny
- destruction
- disaster
- discomposure
- disquietude
- distress signal
- disturbance
- divination
- divine will
- doom
- downfall
- dread
- effect
- end
- ending
- evidence
- example
- exhortation
- fear
- feeling
- feeling in bones
- fixed future
- flag
- flash
- fore
- foreboding
- forecast
- foreknowledge
- foreordain
- foreordination
- foreshadowing
- forethought
- foretoken
- forewarning
- fortune
- funny feeling
- future
- gesture
- giveaway
- guidance
- handwriting on the wall
- handwriting on wall
- harbinger
- heads up
- herald
- high sign
- hint
- horoscope
- hunch
- idea
- index
- indication
- indicator
- inescapableness
- inevitability
- information
- injunction
- intimation
- intuition
- issue
- judgment
- Judgment Day
- karma
- kismet
- Lady Luck
- lap of the gods
- lesson
- light
- look out
- lot
- luck
- manifestation
- mark
- Mayday
- misgiving
- Moira
- Moirai
- nemesis
- nod
- note
- notification
- omen
- opinion
- outcome
- perturbation
- portent
- portents and evils imminent
- portion
- precursor
- predestinate
- predestination
- predestine
- predetermination
- predetermine
- prediction
- preindication
- premonition
- prenotion
- preordain
- presage
- presentiment
- prognostic
- prognostication
- proof
- prophecy
- providence
- recommendation
- ruin
- sentence
- sign
- signal
- sinking feeling
- SOS
- stamp
- stars
- suggestion
- suspicion
- symbol
- symptom
- termination
- threat
- tip
- tip-off
- token
- trace
- tragedy
- upshot
- verdict
- vestige
- vibes
- vibrations
- warning
- warning sign
- watch-it
- wave
- way the ball bounces
- way the cookie crumbles
- wheel of fortune
- whistle
- wind change
- winds
- winds of change
- wink
- witness
- word
- word to the wise
- worriment
- writing on the wall
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