Word Meanings - PREDICTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREDICTIVE)

• Portentous
• Indicative
• suggestive
• threatening
• prophetic
• predictive
• ominous
• premonitory
• Prophetic
• Predictive
• portentous
• fatidical
• oracular
• sibylline

Related words: (words related to PREDICTIVE)

• PROPHETIC; PROPHETICAL
  Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• ORACULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
• PROPHETICALITY
  Propheticalness.
• SIBYLLINE
  Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by
• PREMONITORY
  Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• PROPHETICALNESS
  The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
• FATIDICAL
  Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.
• SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
  Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
• PORTENTOUS
  1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay. 2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious;
• SUGGESTIVE
  Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. -- Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.
• THREATENING
  a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.
• PROPHETICALLY
  In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.
• PREDICTIVE
  Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.
• INDICATIVE
  Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood , that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing;
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
• VINDICATIVE
  1. Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy. 2. Revengeful; vindictive. Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate. Bacon. -- Vin"di*ca*tive*ness, n.