Predict

Verb

 * 1)  To state, or make something known in advance, especially using inference or special knowledge.
 * 2)  To believe or hold to be true in advance; forehold; surmise.
 * How could I ever predict this could happen?
 * 1)  To foretell, foresee or prophesy.

Adverbs for Predict
prophetically; confidently; correctly; lugubriously; mournfully; dismally; darkly; complacently; boldly; astrologically; miraculously.

Thesaurus
adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, auspicate, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bet, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, conclude, conjecture, contemplate, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, envisage, envision, expect, forebode, forecast, foreglimpse, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretaste, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, gamble, gather, guess, hariolate, have a hunch, have an intimation, hazard a conjecture, hint, hope, infer, intimate, judge, lie ahead, look ahead, look beyond, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, near, omen, plan, plot, portend, prefigure, presage, presume, prognosticate, project, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, see ahead, see beforehand, shadow, shadow forth, soothsay, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, think, threaten, vaticinate

Alternative forms

 * prædict

Etymology
17th Century: from praedicere:, from prae: + dicere:.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 预测 (yùcè)
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 * Japanese: 予言する (よげんする, yogen suru)
 * Korean: 예언하다 (ye-eonhada)


 * Persian: پیشگویی
 * Polish: przewidywać / przewidzieć
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: предсказывать, предсказать
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 * Egyptian:
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 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: предсказывать, предсказать ; предрекать , предречь
 * Swahili:


 * : prédire

Related terms

 * predictable
 * predictability
 * predictably
 * predictive
 * predictively
 * predictiveness
 * predictor