Word Meanings - FOREBODE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; 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,

Additional info about word: FOREBODE

1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOREBODE)

• Betoken
• Teach
• indicate
• proclaim
• presage
• augur
• portend
• foreshow
• signify
• forebode
• evidence
• declare
• manifest
• involve
• imply
• Bode
• Foretell
• betoken
• foreshadow
• predict
• prophesy
• promise
• herald
• announce
• prognosticate
• Expect
• Anticipate
• await
• forecast
• wait for
• rely on
• look for
• foresee
• Foresee
• Predict
• anticipate
• foretell
• foreknow
• divine
• preindicate
• forewarn

Related words: (words related to FOREBODE)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• AUGURER
  An augur. Shak.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• HERALDRY
  The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
• AUGURIAL
  Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.
• TEACH
  1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• FOREPROMISED
  Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.