forebode

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

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

/fɔːˈbəʊd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-forebode.wav

forebode forebodes foreboding foreboded forbode

From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.

foretell portend predict

bode

forebodement foreboder unforeboded

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