predict Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


Pre*dict" transitive verb
Etymology
L. praedictus, p. p. of praedicere to predict; prae before + dicere to say, tell. See Diction, and cf. Preach.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Predicted; present participle & verbal noun Predicting
Definitions
  1. To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet. Syn. -- To foretell; prophesy; prognosticate; presage; forebode; foreshow; bode.
Pre*dict" noun
Definitions
  1. A prediction. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913