forebode

Verb

Verb Forms: foreboded, foreboding, forebodes

• To be a warning or omen of a future event; to portend.
• make a prediction about; tell in advance
• 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.

Noun

• prognostication; presage

Examples

• The opponent’s intense focus did forebode a high-scoring play in Words With Friends.

Synonyms

anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise, portend

Related Words

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