The difference between Forebode and Predict

When used as nouns, forebode means prognostication, whereas predict means a prediction.

When used as verbs, forebode means to predict a future event, whereas predict means to make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning.


check bellow for the other definitions of Forebode and Predict

  1. Forebode as a verb:

    To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

  2. Forebode as a verb:

    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.

  1. Forebode as a noun (obsolete):

    prognostication; presage

  1. Predict as a verb (transitive):

    To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.

    Examples:

    "'2000, w J.K. Rowling, ''w Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', xiii."

    "'2012, w Jeremy Bernstein, "[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2012/2/a-palette-of-particles A Palette of Particles]" in ''w American Scientist'', Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146"

  2. Predict as a verb (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.):

    To imply.

  3. Predict as a verb (intransitive):

    To make predictions.

  4. Predict as a verb (transitive, military, rare):

    To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.

  1. Predict as a noun (obsolete):

    A prediction.

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