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Foretold vs Forbode - What's the difference?

foretold | forbode |

As verbs the difference between foretold and forbode

is that foretold is (foretell) or foretold can be while forbode is or forbode can be to portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen.

As a noun forbode is

a forbidding, prohibition.

foretold

English

Verb

(head)
  • (foretell)

    • Verb

    (head)

    • foretell

    English

    Verb

  • To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold .
  • * C. Middleton
    • Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.

    Derived terms

    * foretellable * foreteller

    References

    * *

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs

    forbode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forbode, forbod, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forbidding, prohibition.
  • A command forbidding a thing.
    • God's/The Lord's forbode

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • .

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) foreboden, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * forebode (much more commonly used)

    Verb

    (forbod)
  • To portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen.
    • The dark clouds forbode of fierce storms.
    Synonyms
    * (to portend or foretell) foretell, portend, predict