Forebode

Quick meaning: Forebode is a verb meaning To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. 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.
2. (obsolete) prognostication; presage

Example Sentences

Here sits he shaping wings to fly: / His heart forebodes a mystery: / He names the name Eternity.

Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.

There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.

Walter was disturbed by a low rap at the door. It was so indistinct and hesitating, that, at first, he thought himself mistaken; a second summons, however, led him to rise and open to his visitor. It was the very person that he foreboded—Mr. Curl.

Word Forms

• forebodes
• foreboding
• foreboded
• forbode

Synonyms for forebode

Depending on context, synonyms include foretell, portend, predict, call, anticipate, promise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foretell, prognosticate, predict, anticipate, promise, call.

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