foreboding

foreboding
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. portent; presentiment, premonition, apprehension.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A feeling of impending evil]
Syn. premonition, dread, presentiment; see anticipation 2 , hunch 2 .
2. [An omen]
Syn. prediction, portent, prophecy; see sign 1 , warning .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
portent, bad feeling, omen, premonition, uneasiness, warning, prophecy, foreshadowing, *gut feeling, apprehension, *handwriting on the wall, *bad vibes, forewarning.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun An indication of impending danger or harm: forewarning, threat, thundercloud. Idioms: gathering clouds, storm clouds. See FORESIGHT.

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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 — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dark, deep VERB + FOREBODING ▪ feel, have ▪ I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong. ▪ …   Collocations 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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