26984 words

foreboding

2 definitions • 4 examples
1
a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon:

Examples:

sense of foreboding There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.
Her forebodings about the future were to prove justified.
[ + (that) ] He had a strange foreboding (that) something would go wrong.
2
the feeling that something bad is going to happen:

Examples:

The gloomy weather gave me a sense of foreboding.

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