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[ fawr-boh-ding, fohr- ] / fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR foreboding ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna prediction; portent. a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment. adjectivethat forebodes, especially evil. Origin of foreboding1350–1400; Middle English forbodyng (noun); see forebode, -ing1, -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM forebodingfore·bod·ing·ly, adverbfore·bod·ing·ness, nounun·fore·bod·ing, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH forebodingforbidding, foreboding Words nearby forebodingfore-and-aft sail, forearm, forearm smash, forebear, forebode, foreboding, forebody, forebrain, forecaddie, forecast, forecastle Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for forebodingSeason six is big on the sense of foreboding doom, and it doesn’t always do it well — but here it’s still fresh enough to be unsettling and effective. Every episode of Gilmore Girls, ranked|Constance Grady|October 6, 2020|Vox The sense of foreboding mounted by the day as IS fighters surrounded the Sinjar district on three sides. How the U.S.-favored Kurds Abandoned the Yazidis when ISIS Attacked|Christine van den Toorn|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST There was one foreboding clue as to what was to come for the house members. No One Told ‘Big Brother Israel’ About the War|Nina Strochlic|August 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST Plus the moors where she lives—all cascading waterfalls and glowing fairies and foreboding thorns—are rather lovely to look at it. The Ghastly ‘Maleficent’ and Why It’s Time For Hollywood to Kill the Dark Reboot|Andrew Romano|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And their deaths have heightened the tensions and the sense of foreboding that something bigger and more brutal may happen soon. Russia’s Partisans Imposing Their Rule in East Ukraine|Jamie Dettmer|April 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST On August 15, 1982, Mary appeared with a foreboding message. Did the Virgin Mary Warn Rwanda’s Holiest Town of the Genocide?|Nina Strochlic|April 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Vera shivered with foreboding when he spoke of these precautions; she would have liked to have died before evening came. The Precipice|Ivan Goncharov St. George heard, and his eager hope went down in foreboding. Keep in mind the distinction between forethought and foreboding. Sermons|Clement Bailhache The grim, persistent figure of the money-lender began to affect him with a foreboding of disaster. A sense of unreality and foreboding seized on Hugh, as the still face of the water looked up at him. Red Pottage|Mary Cholmondeley
British Dictionary definitions for foreboding
nouna feeling of impending evil, disaster, etc an omen or portent Derived forms of forebodingforebodingly, adverbforebodingness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to forebodingapprehension, premonition, dread, anxiety, prognostic, prophecy, augury, prediction, warning, fear, chill, presage, forewarning, presentiment, portent, foretoken, foreshadowing, vibes, apprehensiveness, handwriting on the wall |