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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb forebode has 1 sense
- forebode(v = verb.communication) anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" is one way to guess, hazard, pretend, venture
Derived forms noun foreboding2, noun foreboding1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
- To foretell. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]"His heart forebodes a mystery." [1913 Webster]"Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death." [1913 Webster]"I have a sort of foreboding about him."
Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
forebode, v. i.
To foretell; to presage; to augur. [1913 Webster]
"If I forebode aright."
[1913 Webster]
forebode, n.
Prognostication; presage. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
forebode, v.tr.
1 betoken; be an advance warning of (an evil or unwelcome event).
2 have a presentiment of (usu. evil).
1 betoken; be an advance warning of (an evil or unwelcome event).
2 have a presentiment of (usu. evil).
THESAURUS
forebode
apprehend, be imminent, betoken, bludgeon, bode, bulldoze, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, comminate, croak, denounce, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, give advance notice, guess, hariolate, have a premonition, have a presentiment, intimidate, look black, look threatening, lower, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, menace, omen, portend, preapprehend, precaution, predict, prefigure, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell in advance, tell the future, threaten, utter threats against, vaticinate, warnROGET THESAURUS
forebode
Prediction
VB predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project.
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