What does forebode mean?
Definitions for forebode
fɔrˈboʊd, foʊr-fore·bode
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Princeton's WordNet
predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promiseverb
make a prediction about; tell in advance
"Call the outcome of an election"
Wiktionary
forebodenoun
prognostication; presage
forebodeverb
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Forebodeverb
Etymology: fore and bode.
An ancient augur, skill’d in future fate,
With these foreboding words restrains their hate. Dryden.Fate makes you deaf, while I in vain implore:
My heart forebodes I ne’er shall see you more. John Dryden, In. Emp.My soul foreboded I should find the bow’r
Of some fell monster, fierce with barb’rous pow’r. Alexander Pope.
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forebode
Forebode is a verb that means to predict, warn, or have a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, or catastrophe. It is often associated with a sense of impending doom or a bad omen.
Webster Dictionary
Forebodeverb
to foretell
Forebodeverb
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
Forebodeverb
to fortell; to presage; to augur
Forebodenoun
prognostication; presage
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Forebode
fōr-bōd′, v.t. to feel a secret sense of something future, esp. of evil.—ns. Forebode′ment, feeling of coming evil; Forebod′er; Forebod′ing, a boding or perception beforehand; apprehension of coming evil.—adv. Forebod′ingly.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of forebode in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of forebode in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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