forebode

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

• prognostication; presage

Related

Similar words

• foretell, portend, predict

Origin

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