'Forebode' definitions:
Definition of 'forebode'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
Definition of 'Forebode'
From: GCIDE
- Forebode \Fore*bode"\, n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forebode'
From: GCIDE
- Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]
- 1. To foretell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton. [1913 Webster]
- I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
- Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forebode'
From: GCIDE
- Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur. [1913 Webster]
- If I forebode aright. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'forebode'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- warn