FOREBODE

predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise

(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; “Call the outcome of an election”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

forebode (third-person singular simple present forebodes, present participle foreboding, simple past and past participle foreboded)

To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

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.

Synonyms

• (to portend or foretell): foretell, portend, predict

Noun

forebode

(obsolete) prognostication; presage

Source: Wiktionary


Fore*bode", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] Etym: [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]

1. To foretell.

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. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

Syn.

– To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Fore*bode", v. i.

Definition: To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

Fore*bode", n.

Definition: Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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