forboded
Signaled future trouble
Forboded is the past tense of forbode, meaning to predict or portend something ominous.
The word carries a sense of dark anticipation—what forbodes trouble doesn't merely suggest it but signals it with weight: The dark clouds forboded a violent storm.
Forbode is a literary variant of forebode, less common but identical in meaning.
Nervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- fearEmotional response to threat
doom · gloom · anxiety · disquiet · misgiving · alarm · terror · horror
Prophetic indicator
- portentSign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- presageIndicate beforehand
foreshadowing · sign · augury · premonition · prophecy · prognostication · admonition · caution
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
foresight · prescience · inkling · sense · feeling · vision · foreknowledge
Conveying threat or danger
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- grimHarsh and foreboding
baleful · inauspicious · ill-omened · fateful · portentous · dark · shadowy · eerie
apprehension
Nervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
fear · doom · gloom · anxiety · disquiet · misgiving · alarm · terror · horror · despair
omen
Prophetic indicator
- portentSign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
presage · foreshadowing · sign · augury · premonition · prophecy · prognostication · admonition · caution · alert
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
insight · foresight · prescience · inkling · sense · feeling · vision · foreknowledge
menacing
Conveying threat or danger
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- direExtremely serious or urgent
grim · baleful · inauspicious · ill-omened · fateful · portentous · dark · shadowy · eerie · apocalyptic