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foreboding (noun)

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  • 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.) 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 — noun (U) a feeling that something very unpleasant is going to happen soon: She waited for news from the hospital with a grim sense of foreboding …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • foreboding — noun 1) a feeling of foreboding Syn: apprehension, anxiety, trepidation, disquiet, unease, uneasiness, misgiving, suspicion, worry, fear, fearfulness, dread, alarm; informal the willies, the heebie jeebies, the jitters, the creeps …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • foreboding — noun fearful apprehension. adjective ominous. Derivatives forebodingly adverb …   English new terms dictionary

  • foreboding — I. noun Date: 14th century the act of one who forebodes; also an omen, prediction, or presentiment especially of coming evil ; portent II. adjective Date: 1630 indicative of or marked by foreboding • forebodingly adverb • forebodingness …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • foreboding — fore|bod|ing1 [ fɔr boudıŋ ] noun uncount a strong unpleasant feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon foreboding fore|bod|ing 2 [ fɔr boudıŋ ] adjective LITERARY making you feel that something bad will happen …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • foreboding — 1. noun a) A sense of evil to come. b) An evil omen. Syn: augury 2. adjective Of ominous significance …   Wiktionary

  • foreboding — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. portent; presentiment, premonition, apprehension. See prediction, warning, threat. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A feeling of impending evil] Syn. premonition, dread, presentiment; see anticipation 2 , hunch …   English dictionary for students

  • foreboding — I UK [fɔː(r)ˈbəʊdɪŋ] / US [fɔrˈboʊdɪŋ] noun [uncountable] a strong unpleasant feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon II UK [fɔː(r)ˈbəʊdɪŋ] / US [fɔrˈboʊdɪŋ] adjective literary making you feel that something bad will happen …   English dictionary

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