Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foreshadowing

1 sense of foreshadowing

Sense 1
prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration -- (the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand)
       => prediction, anticipation, prevision -- (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb foreshadow

1 sense of foreshadow

Sense 1
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict -- (indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news")
       => bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal -- (be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued")

Antonyms of adj foreshadowing

1 sense of foreshadowing

Sense 1
adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative -- (indistinctly prophetic)

INDIRECT (VIA prophetic) -> unprophetic -- (not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly)

Similarity of adj foreshadowing

1 sense of foreshadowing

Sense 1
adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative -- (indistinctly prophetic)
       => prophetic (vs. unprophetic), prophetical -- (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic")