Words and phrases that have a meaning related to foreshadowing: (150 results)
Often used in the same context:
portent, harbinger, presaged, prelude, portends, foretelling, foretaste, precursor, prefiguring, forebodes, ominous, hints, reminder, coda, portentous, denouement, omen, punctuation mark, subtext, allude, unsettling, heralding, offing, premonition, metaphor, foresaw, flashback, counterpoint, bookend, allusion, fodder, disquieting, emblematic, reminiscent, presentiment, swan song, inevitable, belabors, bracing, anticlimax, climactic, ensue, perhaps, intimations, cataclysmic, subplot, predicting, prophesied, allegory, bodes, foreordained, doozy, punctuate, forewarning, springboard, apropos, augury, cliffhanger, postscript, prescient, grislier, terminological, endings, chilling, sophoclean, epitaph, consequence, spark, repudiation, segue, dramatic, catharses, overdetermined, unintended, epilogue, pluperfect, sort, telegraphed, footnote, pondering, forbearer, unfolded, threnody, unsettledness, recap, excrescence, doozie, apocalyptic, microcosm, redux, retrospect, describing, culminating, requiem, adumbrate, darkly, envisioning, overshadowing, evitable, summation, anticipating, forestall, echo, hint, intimation, beginning, foreshadowings, reminiscence, analogy, inkling, resemblance, coincidence, indication, premonitions, allusions, analogies, forerunner, disturbing, apotropaic, bending, capturing, determinative, expositional, mantic, mnemonic, revelatory, adjustive, arousing, arresting, coloristic, distractive, filmic, hemostatic
Appears in the definition of:
baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly
More general:
anticipation, foresight, prediction
Synonyms:
Also try:adumbrative, prefiguration, prefigurative, prophetic, prophetical
— Adjectives for foreshadowing: faint, dim, first, ominous, clear, ironic, remarkable, dramatic, early, prophetic, strange, more...
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