bodeverb [ I or T ]
uk/bəʊd/us/boʊd/formalto be a sign of something that will happen in the future, usually something very good or bad:
These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
The hurricane bodes disaster for those areas in its path.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- clairvoyant
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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