foreboding

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Definition of foreboding

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A sense of evil to come.
    “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.”
    “A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.”
    “I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A sense of evil to come.
    “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.”
    “A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.”
    “I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)An evil omen.

adj

  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”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of forebode

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Etymology

From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).

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