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The Meaning of forebode

  • (v. t.) To foretell.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.
  • (n.) Prognostication; presage.

Synonyms

forestall , predict , augur , foreshadow , scream , prognosticate , counter , promise , phone , yell , foreknow , shout out , foretell , cry , herald , call in , auspicate , expect , holler , call up , betoken , call off , assure , call , look for , send for , previse , anticipate , address , visit , portend , shout , bode , foresee , look to , announce , presage , name , hollo , squall , bid , ring , omen , forecast , harbinger , telephone , annunciate , prefigure , divine , prophesy , guess , venture , pretend , hazard

Antonyms

assure , demonstrate , establish , make sure , settle , calculate , determine , insure , prove , warrant

Rhymes

abode , anode , bestowed , bestrode , blowed , boatload , bode , bowed , brode , busload , carload , caseload , cathode , coad , code , coed , commode , corrode , crossroad , crowed , decode , diode , elbowed , encode , episode , erode , explode , flowed , goad , goedde , goede , grode , implode , inroad , kanode , knode , knowed , load , lode , m-code , methode , microcode , moad , mode , mowed , nematode , node , ode , out-mode , outmode , overflowed , overload , overrode , owed , payload , railroad , reload , rhoad , rhode , road , rode , roed , rohde , shipload , shoad , showed , shrode , slowed , snowed , sowed , spode , stowed , strode , thode , toad , towed , truckload , unbowed , unload , workload