forebodes
Warns of trouble
Forebodes is the third-person singular of forebode, meaning to predict or portend something ominous.
Dark clouds forebode a storm; a character's ominous warning forebodes tragedy.
The word carries a sense of dread or evil about what's coming: Her silence forebodes nothing good.
Related to the noun foreboding.
Indicates what's coming
- presagesIndicates in advance
- augursForetells or predicts
- foreshadowsIndicates future events
- prophesiesPredicts future events
foretells · bodes · heralds · signals · indicates · prefigures · adumbrates · prognosticates
Conveying threat or danger
- loomingAppearing threateningly close
- impendingSoon to occur
- imminentAbout to occur
- direExtremely serious or urgent
grim · sinister · baleful · ominous · alarming · dark · threatening · brooding
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- hunchUnproven inner sense
inkling · sense · feeling · suspicion · foresight · anticipation · intuition · clairvoyance
Sign of future calamity
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- ominousnessQuality of seeming threatening
- ill omenSign predicting misfortune
bad sign · dark cloud · shadow · gloom · inauspiciousness · ill-boding · warning sign · pall
portends
Indicates what's coming
- presagesIndicates in advance
- augursForetells or predicts
- foreshadowsIndicates future events
prophesies · foretells · bodes · heralds · signals · indicates · prefigures · adumbrates · prognosticates · betokens
menacing
Conveying threat or danger
dire · grim · sinister · baleful · ominous · alarming · dark · threatening · brooding · lowering
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
hunch · inkling · sense · feeling · suspicion · foresight · anticipation · intuition · clairvoyance · divination
portent
Sign of future calamity
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- ominousnessQuality of seeming threatening
ill omen · bad sign · dark cloud · shadow · gloom · inauspiciousness · ill-boding · warning sign · pall · specter
forebodesreassures
Restores another's confidence
promises · heralds · encourages · heartens
- foreboding weatherSigns of approaching storms