Antonyms for predict
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pri-dikt |
| Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈdɪkt |
Definition of predict
Origin :- 1620s (implied in predicted), "foretell, prophesy," a back formation from prediction or else from Latin praedicatus, past participle of praedicere "foretell, advise, give notice," from prae "before" (see pre-) + dicere "to say" (see diction). Related: Predicted; predicting.
- verb express an outcome in advance
- I ventured to predict that success awaited him in the rubber business.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870 » by Various
- The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What doom or what disaster did this storm typify and predict?
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- It is easy to predict that the day will come when there will be need of each of these manouvres.
- Extract from : « On Horsemanship » by Xenophon
- So I forbore to predict what would be his ultimate form of beauty.
- Extract from : « Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad » by Various
- What other unexpected qualities the Yankees might show no one could predict.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- Who so bold as to predict what, while he is yet speaking, may be contradicted?
- Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
- What would he have thought of him who should predict such a future as this for him?
- Extract from : « St. Patrick's Eve » by Charles James Lever
- It enables us to predict where satellites will be abundant and where they will be absent.
- Extract from : « Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I » by Herbert Spencer
- They predict events with too much accuracy not to have a hand in their fulfilment.
- Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever
Synonyms for predict
- adumbrate
- anticipate
- augur
- be afraid
- call
- call it
- conclude
- conjecture
- croak
- crystal-ball divine
- envision
- figure
- figure out
- forebode
- forecast
- foresee
- forespeak
- foretell
- gather
- guess
- have a hunch
- hazard a guess
- infer
- judge
- make book
- omen
- portend
- presage
- presume
- prognosticate
- prophesy
- psych out
- read
- see coming
- see handwriting on wall
- size up
- soothsay
- suppose
- surmise
- telegraph
- think
- vaticinate
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