foretell Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb foreshadow or presage
    herald; announce; harbinger; annunciate.
  2. verb make a prediction about; tell in advance
    predict; anticipate; forebode; call; promise; prognosticate.
    • Call the outcome of an election
  3. verb indicate by signs
    omen; prefigure; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
    • These signs bode bad news

WordNet


Fore*tell" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Foretold ; present participle & verbal noun Foretelling
Definitions
  1. To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
    Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope.
    Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.
    Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
Fore*tell" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To utter predictions. Acts iii. 24.

Webster 1913