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单词 fortune-telling
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fortune teller

noun

variants or less commonly fortune-teller
ˈfȯr-chən-ˌte-lər How to pronounce fortune teller (audio)
plural fortune tellers also fortune-tellers
: someone or something with the supposed ability to foretell future events and especially the details of a person's future
For thousands of years, people have gone to fortune tellers because they wanted to know whom they would marry or whether they were going to be rich or famous. Muse
Some of the fortune-tellers he encounters are ludicrously off the mark; others are uncannily accurate. Michael Upchurch
You do not have to be a fortune teller to realize that sneezes, sniffles, plugged up noses and red eyes will be making their appearance in most of our houses within the next two months. Glenn Haege
By the early 1900s it was possible to get a "psychic reading" from a mechanical fortune teller at the local penny arcade. Ralph and Terry Koval
sometimes, specifically : a child's toy that consists of paper folded into four pyramid-shaped parts which are manipulated by the fingers to open and close with each part having a flap that can be unfolded to reveal an answer to one's question about the future : cootie catcher
Some of the most commonly made folk toys are made of paper: fortune tellers (also known as cootie catchers), paper airplanes, spitballs shot through straws … Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun
Your child may choose to decorate the fortune teller … with stickers or drawings, or to color the outside squares instead of writing the name of a color. Sally Worsham
fortune-telling
ˈfȯr-chən-ˌte-liŋ How to pronounce fortune teller (audio)
noun or adjective

Synonyms

  • augur
  • diviner
  • forecaster
  • foreseer
  • foreteller
  • futurist
  • prognosticator
  • prophesier
  • prophet
  • seer
  • soothsayer
  • visionary
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Word History

First Known Use

1582, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

fortune-teller

noun

for·​tune-tell·​er
ˈfȯr-chən-ˌte-lər
: a person who claims to foretell future events

fortune-telling 1 of 2

adjective

as in soothsaying

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • soothsaying
  • forecasting
  • divining
  • predicting
  • foretelling
  • prophesying
  • foreseeing
  • prognosticating
  • presaging
  • wondrous
  • extraordinary
  • miraculous
  • conjuring
  • metaphysical
  • stupendous
  • amazing
  • foreknowing
  • astonishing
  • charming
  • bewitching
  • enchanting
  • sublime
  • portentous
  • awesome
  • astounding
  • marvelous
  • marvellous
  • paranormal
  • preternatural
  • stunning
  • magic
  • supernormal
  • fabulous
  • unearthly
  • bewitched
  • enchanted
  • spellbound
  • wiling
  • occult
  • magical
  • mystic
  • numinous
  • weird

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • usual
  • ordinary
  • routine
  • prosaic
  • normal
  • commonplace
  • everyday
  • workaday
  • unremarkable
  • unexceptional
  • run-of-the-mill
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fortune-telling

2 of 2

noun

as in divination

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • divination
  • soothsaying
  • forecasting
  • divining
  • predicting
  • foretelling
  • prophesying
  • sortilege
  • prognosticating
  • foreseeing
  • spiritualism
  • presaging
  • augury
  • jinx
  • foreknowing
  • occultism
  • crystal gazing
  • incantation
  • curse
  • hoodoo
  • omen
  • talisman
  • conjuration
  • augur
  • amulet
  • glamour
  • spell
  • witchcraft
  • sorcery
  • exorcism
  • hex
  • mascot
  • fetish
  • glamor
  • necromancy
  • phylactery
  • wizardry
  • magic
  • conjuring
  • abracadabra
  • thaumaturgy
  • fetich
  • hexerei
  • witchery
  • voodooism
  • alchemy
  • bewitchment
  • charm
  • devilry
  • mojo
  • deviltry
  • enchantment
  • periapt
  • diablerie
  • bewitchery
  • ensorcellment

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • science
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