Word Meanings - FOREBODEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOREBODEMENT)

• Prediction
• Prophecy
• prognostication
• vaticination
• foreannouncement
• premonstration
• foretelling
• forebodement
• presage
• augury
• foreshowing

Related words: (words related to FOREBODEMENT)

• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• PRESAGEFUL
  Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
• VATICINATION
  Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.
• FORETELL
  To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate;
• PROPHECY
  A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29. 3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction. (more info) 1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an
• PREMONSTRATION
  A showing beforehand; foreshowing.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• AUGURY
  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
• FORESHOW
  To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.
• PRESAGER
  One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.
• PROGNOSTICATION
  1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction. 2. That which foreshows; a foretoken. Shak.
• PREDICTION
  The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon. Syn. -- Prophecy; prognostication; foreboding; augury; divination; soothsaying; vaticination.
• FORESHOWER
  One who predicts.