foreboding

Definition of foreboding

Nouns

a feeling of evil to come
"a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"
Synonyms:
boding, 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
an unfavorable omen
Type of:
omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication
a sign of something about to happen

Adjectives

ominously prophetic
Synonyms:
fateful, portentous
prophetic, prophetical
foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

Vocabulary Lists for foreboding

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