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/fɔrbˈoʊdɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Foreboding n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

verb

Forebode v. t. (past & past part. foreboded; pres. part. foreboding)

To foretell.

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. "His heart forebodes a mystery." "Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death." "I have a sort of foreboding about him."

Synonyms: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Forebode v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur. "If I forebode aright."

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Etymology of 'Foreboding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... trembled. He looked about at the familiar surroundings, and everything seemed suddenly strange and unreal to him. He looked again at the letter in his hand, turning it curiously. A strange feeling of oppression and ominous foreboding possessed him as though the bright spring sky were all at once overcast with heavy and menacing storm-clouds. What was it? "Buenos Aires,—Susan Wakefield?" Where had he seen that combination before? What was it that made the name of the Argentine city in connection with Auntie Sue's ...

— The Re-Creation of Brian Kent • Harold Bell Wright

... she isn't like her father," said Charlotte with foreboding, as she aired and swept the southeast spare room for their expected guest. They had three spare rooms at the Grange, but the aunts had selected the southeast one for their niece because it was done in white, "and white seems the ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... and I was left with a leaden foreboding of grewsome things in store. I knew what manner of man Ukridge was when he relaxed and became chummy. Friendships of years' standing had ...

— Love Among the Chickens - A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm • P. G. Wodehouse

... long time I could not make up my mind to open the second note... What could it be that she was writing to me?... My soul was agitated by a painful foreboding. ...

— A Hero of Our Time • M. Y. Lermontov

... his foreboding, by recurring to the theme by which her thoughts seemed most constantly engrossed, although, when she pleased, no one could ...

— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott

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