foreboding

plural forebodings · alternative forboding

1. countableuncountableA sense of evil to come.

   I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.

   1976 December 25, John Atteridg, “Going Home for the Holidays”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 18

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   To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.

   1876 November, Henry James, Jr., chapter XIII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 229

   A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.

   1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 41

   Synonyms: augury, preboding

2. countableuncountableAn evil omen.

comparative more foreboding · superlative most foreboding · alternative forboding

1. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

   Blood on the street / Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next

   2018, “Blood on the Street”, performed by Soulfly

   Synonyms: inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous

alternative forboding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of forebode