boded
Gave an omen
Boded is the past tense of bode, meaning to be an omen or sign of something to come.
It almost always appears with well or ill: The dark clouds boded ill for our picnic.
Something that bodes well suggests a favorable outcome; something that bodes ill portends trouble.
The word carries a slightly literary or formal tone and implies intuition about future events rather than certainty.
Prophetic indicator
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- portentSign of future calamity
- presageIndicate beforehand
divination · oracle · soothsaying · prognostication · auspice · foreshadowing · forewarning · adumbration
Advance sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
presentiment · suspicion · misgiving · apprehension · unease · anticipation · expectation · sense
Portending misfortune ahead
- inauspiciousShowing poor prospects
- unpropitiousNot favorable for success
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
threatening · dire · grim · dark · baleful · portentous · fateful · bleak
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Prophetic indicator
presage · divination · oracle · soothsaying · prognostication · auspice · foreshadowing · forewarning · adumbration · sibyl
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
sixth sense · presentiment · suspicion · misgiving · apprehension · unease · anticipation · expectation · sense · feeling
ill-omened
Portending misfortune ahead
- inauspiciousShowing poor prospects
- unpropitiousNot favorable for success
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
menacing · threatening · dire · grim · dark · baleful · portentous · fateful · bleak · gloomy
bodedconfirmed
Established as accurate
proved · demonstrated · established · verified · realized
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