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foreboding::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fateful, portentous |
foreboding::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | boding, premonition, presentiment |
| Type of | apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread |
| Has types | presage, shadow |
| Derivation | forebode |
a steadily escalating sense of foreboding.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | prognostication, presage, omen, portent, prodigy, prognostic |
| Derivation | forebode |
Examples of foreboding
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For the reader, this light and tender mood is darkened by a sense of foreboding.
From the washingtontimes.com
It is the foreboding and the mystery of her that keep this ghost story engaging.
From the washingtonpost.com
Now, a ringing phone at a doctor's house sometimes carries a certain foreboding.
From the sacbee.com
Markets have risen of late, though volumes have been pitiful, almost foreboding.
From the smh.com.au
As he explained, the foreboding begins when a UK minion turns on the treadmill.
From the kentucky.com
They're whimsical images with a bit of Little Red Riding Hood-esque foreboding.
From the freep.com
Even then, I could not open a letter from a lawyer without a sense of foreboding.
From the newsobserver.com
Of all the Bushies, Cheney was the most foreboding about the threat they posed.
From the time.com
This is an ominous painting, full of foreboding, full of the tease of immoralism.
From the independent.co.uk
- A feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
- Fateful: ominously prophetic
- An unfavorable omen
- A sense of evil to come; An evil omen; Of ominous significance
- A sense of impending danger or evil.
- Presagio; augurio; presentimiento
