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Forbidding vs Forebode - What's the difference?

forbidding | forebode |

As verbs the difference between forbidding and forebode

is that forbidding is while forebode is to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

As nouns the difference between forbidding and forebode

is that forbidding is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition while forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

As an adjective forbidding

is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

forbidding

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.

    forebode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forbode (much less commonly used)

    Verb

    (forebod)
  • To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
    • There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
  • To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
  • * Tennyson
    • His heart forebodes a mystery.
  • * Middleton
    • Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
  • * H. James
    • I have a sort of foreboding about him.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) prognostication; presage

    • See also

    * bode