N. foresight,
prospicience, prevision, long- sightedness,
anticipation, providence,
forethought,
forecast,
predeliberation,
presurmise, foregone conclusion,
prudence,
foreknowledge,
prognosis,
precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment, second sight,
sagacity,
antepast,
prelibation,
prophasis, prospect,
foretaste,
prospectus V. foresee, look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond, scent from afar, look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future, see one's way, see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, see how the wind blows, test the waters, see how the cat jumps,
anticipate, expect, be beforehand,
predict,
foreknow,
forejudge,
forecast,
presurmise, have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance, respicere finem, keep a sharp lookout,
forewarn Adv. against the time when
Phr. cernit omnia deus vindex, mihi cura futuri, run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
N. supposition, assumption, assumed position,
postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis,
postulate,
postulatum, theory,
thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal,
presumption,
divination, conjecture,
guess,
guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality,
surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness) 197,
inkling, suggestion,
hint,
intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion,
association of ideas, (analogy) 514a, metonym,
metonymy, simile (metaphor) 521,
conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination) 515
V. suppose, conjecture,
surmise,
suspect,
guess, divine,
theorize,
presume,
presurmise, presuppose, assume, fancy,
wis, take it, give a guess,
speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted, imagine, put forth,
propound,
propose, start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion, hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture, allude to, suggest,
hint, put it into one's head, suggest itself, run in the head, marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether
Adj. supposing, given,
mooted,
postulatory, assumed,
supposititious,
suppositive, suppositious,
gratuitous, speculative,
conjectural,
hypothetical, theoretical,
academic, supposable,
presumptive,
putative,
suppositional, suggestive,
allusive Adv. if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of,
quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows