foreboding

foreboding
noun
ADJECTIVE
dark, deep
VERB + FOREBODING
feel, have

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

be full of

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

fill sb with
PREPOSITION
foreboding of

She had a foreboding of danger.

PHRASES
a feeling of foreboding, a sense of foreboding

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  • foreboding — [fôr bōd′iŋ, fôr′bōd΄iŋ] n. [OE forebodung] a prediction, portent, or presentiment, esp. of something bad or harmful adj. characterized by foreboding SYN. OMINOUS forebodingly adv …   English World dictionary

  • Foreboding — Fore*bod ing, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • foreboding — index admonition, apprehension (fear), caution (warning), expectation, fear, misgiving, pessimisti …   Law dictionary

  • foreboding — (n.) late 14c., a predilection, portent, omen, from FORE (Cf. fore ) + verbal noun from BODE (Cf. bode). Meaning sense of something bad about to happen is from c.1600. Old English forebodung meant prophecy …   Etymology dictionary

  • foreboding — n misgiving, presentiment, *apprehension Analogous words: *foretoken, presage, omen, portent, augury, prognostic: forewarning, warning (see WARN) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • foreboding — [n] misgiving, bad omen anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, bad vibes*, chill, dread, fear, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall*, portent, prediction, premonition, prenotion, presage,… …   New thesaurus

  • foreboding — ► NOUN ▪ fearful apprehension. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ ominous. DERIVATIVES forebodingly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • foreboding — n. 1) a gloomy foreboding 2) a foreboding that + clause (I have a foreboding that there will be a bad storm) * * * [fɔː bəʊdɪŋ] a gloomy foreboding a foreboding that + clause (I have a foreboding that there will be a bad storm) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • foreboding — [[t]fɔː(r)bo͟ʊdɪŋ[/t]] forebodings 1) N VAR Foreboding is a strong feeling that something terrible is going to happen. His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding. 2) ADJ GRADED If you describe something as foreboding, you mean… …   English dictionary

  • Foreboding — Forebode Fore*bode , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foreboded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foreboding}.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See {Bode} v. t.] 1. To foretell. [1913 Webster] 2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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