To forebode is to have the feeling that something (usually bad) will happen.
The action of anticipating , predicting or supposing something based on a clue or a signal . In a broad sense, the notion refers to announcing a future event .
To presentiment
Often, "foreboding" is associated with "having a premonition " or " having a hunch ." Therefore, "foreboding" implies developing a certain feeling about something that will happen later in time .
When one has a hunch, one does not have certainties or evidence that allow one to confirm what one anticipates. It is important to note that the notion is usually used in relation to a negative impression .
Some of the various synonyms that can be used to replace this term are: suspect, suppose, presume, intuit, infer, sniff, predict , smell, conjecture, foresee, suspect and glimpse . Depending on the context, it is possible to use an antonym, such as ignore or be unaware .
Some examples
In the following three sentences, we see the term barruntar in context to make it easier to understand: “Several opponents of the government, despite the favorable statistics of recent times, have already begun to suspect that the economic crisis will worsen in the coming months” , “Those who spoke to the girl could not suspect any sign of illness in her, but her condition was nevertheless very serious” , “Knowing my uncle's personality and his lack of attachment to effort, we can suspect that, if he quits this job, he will not work again for a long time…” .
The first example clearly shows us that there is not always reason to experience this kind of premonition: no matter how positive and perhaps promising recent statistics have been, something tells the opponents that the economic situation will soon get worse. Since to have a premonition is also synonymous with to conjecture , a concept in which judgment and observation come into play, we can understand that these people have certain technical knowledge and experience that support their vision of the future, but none of this is enough to affirm that what they believe will happen.
The second sentence reinforces the lack of information that can be given both to predict a fact or a situation and to not be able to do so: since the girl's health was very serious but it was not noticeable at first glance, many will have guessed that she was fine, demonstrating the weakness of presentiments in the face of scientific knowledge . The third is nothing more than a conjecture, since the speaker's uncle can act in the opposite way, it is not possible to affirm what his fate will be.
Let's take the case of a young man who visits his grandfather. Although the old man is in good health , the boy leaves home with a strange and ugly feeling: for some reason, he feels that this is the last time he will see his beloved relative. Something in the man's look or in his words makes him suspect that this would be the farewell. As you can see, there is no concrete reason that leads the grandson to experience this.
A cloudy sky can foreshadow a storm.
Symbolic announcements
The verb announce has two well-defined uses: an objective one, in which it is combined with a subject that executes it, which must be a human being; and a subjective one, which applies to the sensation that something is going to happen due to an unexpected event or a situation generally caused by inanimate objects.
The word barruntar can be used as a synonym for this second meaning, to describe those presentiments that we sometimes have when observing a fact. For example: «The silence of those days foreshadowed the breakup» , «If only I had realized that the tone of his voice foreshadowed what would happen, I would have acted in time » , «I don't think we should go out, since the sky foreshadows a very severe storm» .