Predict - definition, pronunciation, transcription
verb
- indicate, as with a sign or an omen (syn: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate)
Extra examples
All the local forecasters are predicting rain for this afternoon.
She claims that she can predict future events.
It's hard to predict how the election will turn out.
Many people predicted that the store would fail, but it has done very well.
Sales are predicted to be the same as last year.
How often an observer can predict man's actions better than the man himself.
Sales were five percent lower than predicted.
Newspapers predicted that Davis would be re-elected.
It is difficult to predict what the long-term effects of the accident will be.
As Liz had predicted, the rumours were soon forgotten.
Unemployment is predicted to increase to 700,000 by the end of the year.
Analysts predict that rates will rise by almost 40 percent.
We've developed a computer model of the economy to predict what will happen in the future.
We cannot predict future events.
It's impossible to predict the future.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: predict
he/she/it: predicts
present participle: predicting
past tense: predicted
past participle: predicted
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