foreboding in English

noun

1

fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen.

with a sense of foreboding she read the note

synonyms: apprehension, anxiety, trepidation, disquiet, unease, uneasiness, misgiving, suspicion, worry, fear, fearfulness, dread, alarm, the willies, the heebie-jeebies, the jitters, the creeps, premonition, presentiment, bad feeling, sneaking suspicion, funny feeling, intuition, presage

adjective

1

implying or seeming to imply that something bad is going to happen.

when the doctor spoke, his voice was dark and foreboding

verb

1

(of a situation or occurrence) act as a warning of (something bad).

this lull foreboded some new assault upon him

synonyms: presage, augur, portend, herald, warn of, forewarn of, foreshadow, be an omen of, indicate, signify, signal, promise, threaten, spell, denote, betoken, foretoken

noun

• apprehension, anxiety, trepidation, disquiet, unease, uneasiness, misgiving, suspicion, worry, fear, fearfulness, dread, alarm, the willies, the heebie-jeebies, the jitters, the creeps
• premonition, presentiment, bad feeling, sneaking suspicion, funny feeling, intuition, presage
• presentiment, premonition, boding

adjective

• fateful, portentous

verb

• presage, augur, portend, herald, warn of, forewarn of, foreshadow, be an omen of, indicate, signify, signal, promise, threaten, spell, denote, betoken, foretoken
• prognosticate, foretell, anticipate, call, predict, promise

Use "foreboding" in a sentence

1. Abodement: Foreboding; prognostication; omen

2. Aboding ( plural Abodings ) ( obsolete) A foreboding

3. Mazzin's presence filled us with foreboding.

4. Foreboding mingled with his excitement.

5. The letter filled him with foreboding.

6. She had a foreboding of danger.

7. Auguste regarded them grimly and with foreboding.

8. Boding definition, a foreBoding; omen

9. An omen or foreBoding, especially of evil.

10. I had a kind of foreboding.

11. An omen or foreBoding, especially of evil

12. Thoughts about the future filled him with foreboding.

13. 3 synonyms for Boding: foreBoding, premonition, presentiment

14. What does Aboding mean? (obsolete) A foreboding

15. The sky was dull, with a foreboding of rain.

16. Ill-Boding definition, foreBoding evil; inauspicious; unlucky: ill-Boding stars

17. His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.

18. She felt a wave of foreboding as they billowed away.

19. Abodement ( plural Abodements ) ( obsolete) A foreboding; an omen

20. She waited for news with a grim sense of foreboding .

21. What does Abodement mean? (obsolete) A foreboding; an omen

22. What does Boding mean? An omen or foreBoding, especially of evil

23. Apprehension definition is - suspicion or fear especially of future evil : foreboding

24. He returned, full of foreboding, to the scene of the accident.

25. Aboding: Presentiment; prognostication; foreboding: as, “strange ominous Abodings and fears,”

26. She had a sinister foreboding that the plane would crash.

27. His heart was beating Agitatedly, as if sharing his sense of foreboding

28. His heart was beating agitatedly, as if sharing his sense of foreboding.

29. I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.

30. Boding definition: an omen ; foreBoding Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

31. She had a foreboding that she's never see him again.

32. A sequence played amid a storm exudes the right air of ominous foreboding.

33. She had a sense of foreboding that the news would be bad.

34. "Jeanie, I have to go away," he said, his voice full of foreboding.

35. Yet, with all the activity getting under way, they also shared a sense of foreboding.

36. His foreboding quickly turned to enthusiastic support when he saw her in action.

37. Time lost its familiar context, and uncertainty and foreboding colored those who kept vigil.

38. Viewed from today’s perspective, however, those words take on an ominous, almost foreboding, tone.

39. It's similar to staggering shell-shocked in alien territory occupied solely by foreboding empty skyscrapers.

40. There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.

41. Boding: 1 n a feeling of evil to come Synonyms: foreBoding , premonition , presentiment Types: shadow a premonition of something adverse presage a foreBoding about what is about to happen Type of: apprehension , apprehensiveness , dread fearful expectation or anticipation

42. The school holds over 500 young people in a massive brick structure that can only be described as foreboding.

43. Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.

44. Synonyms for Boding include presage, portent, foreBoding, omen, augury, auspice, foreshadowing, prefiguring, straw in the wind and premonition

45. Ah, but who, she asked herself with sudden foreboding, is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan?

46. Although the fresh night air was welcome, Jack was again aware of an unusual feeling of dread and foreboding.

47. But the face into which he had gazed across the candle-flame had been neither tamed, nor troubled by any foreboding.

48. The good dream brings the recollection that you dulcify, does the so bad dream, evil-foreboding dream, strange dream bring you what?

49. A sudden foreboding, Some love will be lost, The heart become so despondence suddenly, I didn't know sad or delight myself.

50. As they waited at the airfield, Sara had the same feeling of foreboding that she had felt before her father died.