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prefigure
Overview of verb prefigure
The verb prefigure has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. prefigure -- (imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured")
2. bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict -- (indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news")
Antonyms of verb prefigure
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb prefigure
2 senses of prefigure
Sense 1
prefigure
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> make, create
Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
=> bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
=> tell
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb prefigure
1 of 2 senses of prefigure
Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
=> threaten
=> foreshow
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb prefigure
2 senses of prefigure
Sense 1
prefigure
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
=> bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
'Cause To' of verb prefigure
Derived Forms of verb prefigure
2 senses of prefigure
Sense 1
prefigure
RELATED TO>(noun) prefiguration#1
=> prefiguration
RELATED TO>(noun) prefiguration#2
=> prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration
Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
RELATED TO>(adj) prefigurative#1
=> adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative
Domain of verb prefigure
Domain Terms of verb prefigure
Familiarity of verb prefigure
prefigure used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb prefigure
2 senses of prefigure
Sense 1
prefigure
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb prefigure
2 senses of prefigure
Sense 1
prefigure
> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
=> visualize, visualise
=> envision, foresee
=> fantasize, fantasise
=> prefigure
=> think
=> fantasy, fantasize, fantasise
=> dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze
Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
> bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
=> bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
=> mark
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb prefigure
Sense 1
prefigure
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
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Sense 2
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
=> bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
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Grep of verb prefigure
prefigure
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