foreboding
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foreboding
a prediction; a portent of future misfortune; presentiment: She had a foreboding that there would be an accident.
Not to be confused with:
forbidding – prohibiting: They are forbidding entry.
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fore·bod·ing
(fôr-bō′dĭng)n.
1. A sense of impending evil or misfortune.
2. An evil omen; a portent.
adj.
Ominous.
fore·bod′ing·ly adv.
fore·bod′ing·ness n.
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foreboding
(fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ)n
1. a feeling of impending evil, disaster, etc
2. an omen or portent
adj
presaging something
foreˈbodingly adv
foreˈbodingness n
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fore•bod•ing
(fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr-)n.
1. a prediction; portent.
2. a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.
adj. 3. of or indicating foreboding, esp. of evil.
[1350–1400]
fore•bod′ing•ly, adv.
fore•bod′ing•ness, n.
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Noun | 1. | foreboding - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" shadow - a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness" presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen |
2. | foreboding - an unfavorable omen omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, presage, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" | |
Adj. | 1. | foreboding - ominously prophetic prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic" |
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foreboding
noun
1. dread, fear, anxiety, chill, unease, apprehension, misgiving, premonition, presentiment, apprehensiveness an uneasy sense of foreboding
2. omen, warning, prediction, portent, sign, token, foreshadowing, presage, prognostication, augury, foretoken No one paid any attention to their gloomy forebodings.
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foreboding
nounAn indication of impending danger or harm:
Idioms: gathering clouds, storm clouds.
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Translations
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forudanelse
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bloga nuojauta
priekšnojauta
predtucha
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foreboding
[fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ] N → presentimiento mto have a foreboding that → presentir que ...
to have forebodings → tener un presentimiento or una corazonada
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foreboding
adj look → Unheil verkündend
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foreboding
(foːˈboudiŋ) noun a feeling that something bad is going to happen. He has a strange foreboding that he will die young.
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