Forebode

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  • intransitive verb. To indicate the likelihood of; portend.
  • intransitive verb. To have a premonition of (a future misfortune).
  • intransitive verb. To prophesy or predict.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Presage; prognostication.
  • To bode or announce beforehand; prognosticate; presage, especially something unfortunate or undesirable: as, the public temper forebodes war; the clouds forebode rain.
  • To foresee; be prescient of; feel a secret premonition of, especially of something evil.
  • Synonyms Predict, Presage, etc. (see foretell); to augur, portend, betoken, foreshadow, be ominous of.
  • To prophesy; presage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To foretell; to presage; to augur.
  • transitive verb. To foretell.
  • transitive verb. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
  • noun. Prognostication; presage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  • noun. prognostication; presage
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a prediction about; tell in advance
  • Word Usage
    "Who is Pan and what exactly does his name forebode?"
    cross-reference
    bode  predict  signify  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    guess  hazard  pretend  venture  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    augur  bet  calculate  forecast  outguess  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rhode  abode  bestowed  bestrode  blowed  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form