Antonyms for bode
boʊdbode

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1. bode

   "Persons or things augur; persons only forebode or presage; things only betoken or portend." Crabb English Synonymes. We augur well for a voyage from past good fortune and a good start; we presage success from the stanchness of the ship and the skill of the captain. We forebode misfortune either from circumstances that betoken failure, or from gloomy fancies for which we could not give a reason. Dissipation among the officers and mutiny among the crew portend disaster. Divine has reference to the ancient soothsayers' arts (as in Gen. xliv, 5, 15), and refers rather to reading hearts than to reading the future. We say I could not divine his motive, or his intention.

   Antonyms:
   assure, calculate, demonstrate, determine, establish, insure, make sure, prove, settle, warrant

   Synonyms:
   augur, betoken, divine, forebode, foretell, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy

   Preposition:
   I augur from all circumstances a prosperous result; I augur ill of the enterprise; "augurs ill to the rights of the people," Thomas Jefferson Writings vol. ii, p. 506. [Taylor, Walton & Maberley '53.] I augur well, or this augurs well, for your cause.

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1. bode

   Antonyms:
   relate, record, narrate, remember

   Synonyms:
   foretell, betoken, foreshadow, presage, predict, prophesy, promise, forebode, herald, announce, prognosticate, portend, augur

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1. bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predictverb

   indicate by signs

   "These signs bode bad news"

   Synonyms:
   predict, herald, bespeak, indicate, promise, figure, betoken, announce, count on, annunciate, foreshadow, omen, point, harbinger, estimate, portend, call, prognosticate, anticipate, reckon, augur, calculate, foretell, forebode, prefigure, signal, forecast, auspicate, presage

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1. bodeverb

   Synonyms:
   forebode, foreshadow, augur, presage, betoken, portend

How to use bode in a sentence?

1. Karen Benjamin Guzzo:

   People feel just really uncertain about the future, and that generally does not bode well for having kids.

2. State Senator Jim Beall:

   The moral dilemma will hang over this as long as we don't have a solution, it will not bode well for the state of California or Volkswagen at all if this drags out because as it drags out, people will be harmed further.

3. Luis Limlingan:

   Having more presence outside the Philippines would bode well for the company...they can tap more Koreans, Chinese and Japanese.

4. Lorenzo Codogno:

   An anti-establishment, anti-euro (though somewhat watered down) and anti-austerity government would not bode well for Italian financial assets.

5. Bill Deverell:

   Here we are — it’s not the end of August and the size and distribution and the destruction of summer 2021 wildfires does not bode well for the next months, the suggestion of patterns across the last two decades in the West is deeply unsettling and worrisome: hotter, bigger, more fires.

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