verb

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

2. 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.

Synonyms: foretell, portend, predict

noun

1. A sense of evil to come.

2. An evil omen.

Synonyms: augury

adjective

1. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.