forebodingnoun [ C or U ]
uk/fɔːˈbəʊ.dɪŋ/us/fɔːrˈboʊ.dɪŋ/literarya feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon:
There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.
Her forebodings about the future were to prove justified.
[ + (that) ] He had a strange foreboding (that) something would go wrong.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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