foreboding
English
Alternative forms
- forboding (much less commonly used)
Etymology
From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + boding.
Noun
foreboding (plural forebodings)
- A sense of evil to come.
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 41:
- A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
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- An evil omen.
Synonyms
Translations
sense of evil to come
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evil omen
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