foreboding

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noun 2adj 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

deep, gloomy

VERB + FOREBODING

feel, have

She had a strange foreboding about the meeting and decided to cancel it.

be full of

Sarah felt full of foreboding as she opened the letter from the hospital.

fill sb with

PREP

with (a) ~

She walked into the meeting with a foreboding that something bad would happen.

~ of

The dark clouds filled him with a foreboding of storms coming that evening.

PHRASES

a feeling/sense of foreboding

Definitions

noun

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.

An evil omen.

adj

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

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Synonyms

noun — a feeling of evil to come

premonition
presentiment
boding

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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.

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

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I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.

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

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Mary walked along the river with a foreboding that this was the last time she would walk anywhere as a free woman.

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Mary shrugged the sense of foreboding away.

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