Bodes vs Forebode - What's the difference?

bodes | forebode |


As nouns the difference between bodes and forebode

is that bodes is while forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

As verbs the difference between bodes and forebode

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

bodes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bode)
    • ----

    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