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foreboding

[ fawr-boh-ding, fohr- ]

noun

  1. a prediction; portent.
  2. a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.


adjective

  1. that forebodes, especially evil.

foreboding

/ fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ /

noun

  1. a feeling of impending evil, disaster, etc
  2. an omen or portent


adjective

  1. presaging something

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Derived Forms

  • foreˈbodingness, noun
  • foreˈbodingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • fore·boding·ly adverb
  • fore·boding·ness noun
  • unfore·boding adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of foreboding1

1350–1400; Middle English forbodyng (noun); forebode, -ing 1, -ing 2

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Example Sentences

The sense of foreboding mounted by the day as IS fighters surrounded the Sinjar district on three sides.

There was one foreboding clue as to what was to come for the house members.

Plus the moors where she lives—all cascading waterfalls and glowing fairies and foreboding thorns—are rather lovely to look at it.

And their deaths have heightened the tensions and the sense of foreboding that something bigger and more brutal may happen soon.

On August 15, 1982, Mary appeared with a foreboding message.

He remembered standing once before on this very spot, that foreboding of coming loneliness so strangely in his heart.

She waited for no further formalities, but shaken with the sure foreboding of calamity, turned and fled the room.

A horrible foreboding gripped me, and I quickly knelt down and raised the dog's head.

Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.

The air seemed full of foreboding; everything seemed to tell him of calamity.

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