divined

verb

past tense of divine
as in anticipated
to realize or know about beforehand it was easy to divine his intention of asking his girlfriend to marry him

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of divined My lack of tact and legibility is divined. — Morgan Parker, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined. — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025 The internet is full of polls that have divined, by soliciting votes from film critics and filmmakers, what are ostensibly the greatest movies of all time. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Feb. 2026 For no other game will there be as much divined as there is after the first one, which accounts for just more than one half of 1% of the Major League Baseball season. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026 Ultimately, though, Saijo divined the phenomenology of the pursuit. — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026 The Etruscan civilization 2,400 years ago in ancient Italy, experts say, believed the future could be divined using chickens, which were said to embody magical qualities. — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for divined
  1. anticipated
  2. foresaw
Verb
  • Listening carefully has also revealed opportunities the company never anticipated.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • It is anticipated the 16-year-old will move to a professional contract upon turning 17 in January 2027.
    — David Ornstein, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of anticipated
Verb
  • The sociologist Max Weber foresaw the paralysis of this bureaucratization that is now unleashing a rising fury against democracy itself.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • In 2016, Henry foresaw Alan Thicke having health issues months before Thicke died.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
Definition of foresaw

Browse Nearby Words

divine
divined
divinely
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Divined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divined. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

Commonly Misspelled Words

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List

One-Word Oxymorons: Bittersweet, Spendthrift, and More

Ten Words Ending with a Silent ‘T’

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
hangman letters and game
Hangman Lightning Round Figure out which word fits in the blanks.
See All