foreboding

a prediction; a portent of future misfortune; presentiment: She had a foreboding that there would be an accident.

Not to be confused with:

forbidding – prohibiting: They are forbidding entry.

fore·bod·ing

(fôr-bō′dĭng)

1. A sense of impending evil or misfortune.

2. An evil omen; a portent.

adj.

Ominous.

fore·bod′ing·ly adv.

fore·bod′ing·ness n.

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foreboding

(fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ)

1. a feeling of impending evil, disaster, etc

2. an omen or portent

adj

presaging something

foreˈbodingly adv

foreˈbodingness n

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fore•bod•ing

(fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr-)

n.

1. a prediction; portent.

2. a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.

adj.

3. of or indicating foreboding, esp. of evil.

[1350–1400]

fore•bod′ing•ly, adv.

fore•bod′ing•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	foreboding - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" boding, premonition, presentiment apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" shadow - a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness" presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen
	2.	foreboding - an unfavorable omen omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, presage, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
Adj.	1.	foreboding - ominously prophetic fateful, portentous prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"

foreboding

noun

1. dread, fear, anxiety, chill, unease, apprehension, misgiving, premonition, presentiment, apprehensiveness an uneasy sense of foreboding

2. omen, warning, prediction, portent, sign, token, foreshadowing, presage, prognostication, augury, foretoken No one paid any attention to their gloomy forebodings.

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foreboding

noun

An indication of impending danger or harm:

forewarning, threat, thundercloud.

Idioms: gathering clouds, storm clouds.

Translations

předtucha

forudanelse

Ahnung

pressentiment

rossz előérzet

fyrirboîi

presentimento

bloga nuojauta

priekšnojauta

bange anelser forutanelse

предчувствие

predtucha

içe doğmaönsezi

预感

foreboding

[fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ] N → presentimiento m
to have a foreboding that → presentir que ...
to have forebodings → tener un presentimiento or una corazonada

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foreboding

[fɔː^rˈbəʊdɪŋ] n [person] → appréhension f
a sense of foreboding → une appréhension

foreboding

n (= presentiment) → (Vor)ahnung f, → Vorgefühl nt; (= feeling of disquiet) → ungutes Gefühl

adj look → Unheil verkündend

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foreboding

[fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ] n → (cattivo) presagio, presentimento

foreboding

(foːˈboudiŋ) noun

a feeling that something bad is going to happen. He has a strange foreboding that he will die young.