foreboding
Meanings
Plural: forebodings
Noun
- a feeling of evil to come
- "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"
- an unfavorable omen
- A sense of evil to come.
- An evil omen
Verb
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- present participle and gerund of forebode
Adjective Satellite
- ominously prophetic
Adj
- Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
Synonyms
anticipate, augurous, augury, baleful, bodeful, boding, brooding, call, dire, disastrous, fatal, fateful, forebode, foreboding, foretell, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, nefastous, omenic, ominous, portentous, predict, premonition, presageful, presagious, presentiment, prodigious, prognosticate, promise, sinister, star-crossed, sullen
Scrabble Score: 17
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