predictionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/us/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/B2 a statement about what you think will happen in the future:
Please don't ask me to make any predictions about tomorrow's meeting.
[ + that ] No one believed her prediction that the world would end on 12 November.
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- The prediction of 4 million unemployed now looks horrifyingly realistic.
- The figures are imprecise because they're based on a prediction of next year's sales.
- This environmental report contains more dark predictions about the future of the earth.
- Their predictions were hopelessly out of line with the actual results.
- Her predictions turned out to be uncannily accurate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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