forbodes
Warns of trouble
Forbodes is the third-person singular of forbode, meaning to predict or portend something ominous.
Dark clouds forbode a storm; an unsettling quiet forbodes disaster.
The word carries a sense of warning or premonition about future misfortune: The economic data forbodes a difficult year ahead.
Forebode is the more common spelling.
Indicates what's coming
- presagesIndicates in advance
- augursForetells or predicts
- foreshadowsIndicates future events
- prophesiesPredicts future events
foretells · prognosticates · heralds · prefigures · divines · soothsays · forecasts · predicts
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
suspicion · sense · apprehension · unease · dread · misgiving · anxiety · clairvoyance
Ominously significant
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- inauspiciousShowing poor prospects
- balefulThreatening harm or misfortune
- direExtremely serious or urgent
grim · dark · menacing · threatening · apocalyptic · fateful · ill-omened · brooding
portends
Indicates what's coming
- presagesIndicates in advance
- augursForetells or predicts
- foreshadowsIndicates future events
prophesies · foretells · prognosticates · heralds · prefigures · divines · soothsays · forecasts · predicts · anticipates
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
instinct · suspicion · sense · apprehension · unease · dread · misgiving · anxiety · clairvoyance · foresight
portentous
Ominously significant
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- inauspiciousShowing poor prospects
- balefulThreatening harm or misfortune
dire · grim · dark · menacing · threatening · apocalyptic · fateful · ill-omened · brooding · eerie