predict

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 11.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
2. verb To imply.
3. verb To make predictions.
4. verb To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
5. noun A prediction.

Similar words

prognosticate forecast foretell bode forebode prefigure portend presage auspicate omen

Often followed by

the that what a how and with future which

Word family

predictability predictable predictably predicted predicting prediction predictions predictor predictors predicts