Forebode

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To foretell.

2. 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. 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.

Synonyms: foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.