Word Meanings - PROPHECY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29. 3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction. (more info) 1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an

Additional info about word: PROPHECY

A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29. 3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction. (more info) 1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling. He hearkens after prophecies and dreams. Shak. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man. 2. Pet. i. 21.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPHECY)

• Augury
• Prophecy
• prediction
• divination
• conjecture
• omen
• prognostication
• Prediction
• vaticination
• foreannouncement
• premonstration
• foretelling
• forebodement
• presage
• augury
• foreshowing
• Vaticination

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROPHECY)

• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction

Related words: (words related to PROPHECY)

• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• CALCULATION
  1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of
• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• PRESAGEFUL
  Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
• CONJECTURE
  An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
• VATICINATION
  Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.
• PROOF
  A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
• FORETELL
  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;
• PROPHECY
  A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29. 3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction. (more info) 1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an
• PREMONSTRATION
  A showing beforehand; foreshowing.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• AUGURY
  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
• DEAD-RECKONING
  See A
• BULLET-PROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• WATERPROOF
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• BOMBPROOF
  Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.
• WEATHERPROOF
  Proof against rough weather.