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单词 foreboding
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foreboding

1 of 2

noun

fore·​bod·​ing (ˌ)fȯr-ˈbō-diŋ How to pronounce foreboding (audio)
: the act of one who forebodes
also : an omen, prediction, or presentiment especially of coming evil : portent
It seems that her forebodings were justified.

foreboding

2 of 2

adjective

: indicative of or marked by foreboding
forebodingly
(ˌ)fȯr-ˈbō-diŋ-lē How to pronounce foreboding (audio)
adverb
forebodingness noun

Synonyms

Noun

  • premonition
  • presage
  • presentiment
  • prognostication

Adjective

  • baleful
  • dire
  • direful
  • doomy
  • ill
  • ill-boding
  • inauspicious
  • menacing
  • minatory
  • ominous
  • portentous
  • sinister
  • threatening
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Example Sentences

Noun She was filled with a sense of foreboding. It seems that her forebodings were justified. Adjective foreboding clouds began to gather
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
At least the High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) shares her foreboding. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 July 2022 The day was a patchwork of the hopeful and the foreboding. New York Times, 8 May 2022 In Washington, there’s a deep foreboding about the stakes that are so reminiscent of the past. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2022 Overlaying everything, domestic or foreign, is a constant foreboding in the White House over what Trump might do next. Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2022 An inescapable north wind joined with the frigid thermometer readings to yield wind chills in the teens, enhancing our meteorological foreboding. Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2022 Musically, the duo did their best to underscore the tension and foreboding of the moment. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2022 At the start of yet another year of Covid-19 in our midst, its latest variant rising, there is for many a sense of familiar foreboding. New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022 The split-level set kept the actors in exquisite balance; the sense of tragic foreboding seemed to well up from inside the characters themselves. Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
Adjective
The moon, silent and foreboding as ever, will not discriminate. Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022 An archive of 17 YouTube videos apparently belonging to Crimo alternates between wholesome and foreboding. Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022 Ryan saw the reaction his father received and gave a foreboding smirk. Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022 Beyond that, though, his prognostication is more foreboding. New York Times, 16 July 2022 Even more foreboding is the tally of twenty-one people who are marked as dead. Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022 But in a year when Democrats face a foreboding national environment and a poor approval rating for Biden, the wind is at Republicans’ back. Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 16 July 2022 Starring Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter and Sauriyan Sapkota, the members of the club are seen in the teaser showcasing the series’ foreboding sense of creepiness. Carson Burton, Variety, 6 June 2022 An archive of 17 YouTube videos apparently belonging to Crimo alternates between wholesome and foreboding. Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1630, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

foreboding

noun

fore·​bod·​ing fȯr-ˈbō-diŋ How to pronounce foreboding (audio)
: a feeling that something bad is going to happen

foreboding 1 of 3

adjective

as in ominous
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come foreboding clouds began to gather

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • ominous
  • sinister
  • menacing
  • bleak
  • darkening
  • threatening
  • somber
  • dark
  • portentous
  • minatory
  • murky
  • desolate
  • lonely
  • dire
  • doomy
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • direful
  • baleful
  • inauspicious
  • ill-boding
  • black
  • gray
  • ill
  • unfortunate
  • morbid
  • gloomy
  • morose
  • lugubrious
  • cold
  • elegiac
  • funereal
  • cheerless
  • dim
  • sepulchral
  • sullen
  • saturnine
  • drear
  • unfavorable
  • grey
  • glum
  • sombre
  • dismal
  • dreary
  • disconsolate
  • lonesome
  • forlorn
  • tenebrous
  • troubled
  • chill
  • discouraging
  • cloudy
  • sunless
  • disheartening
  • plutonian
  • godforsaken
  • comfortless
  • unpropitious
  • hopeless
  • unpromising
  • evil
  • miserable
  • malignant
  • dreich
  • elegiacal
  • malign
  • wretched
  • Cimmerian
  • unlucky
  • tenebrific
  • ill-starred
  • ill-fated
  • star-crossed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • hopeful
  • favorable
  • bright
  • benign
  • unthreatening
  • golden
  • promising
  • prosperous
  • propitious
  • auspicious
  • encouraging
  • heartening
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foreboding

2 of 3

noun

1
as in premonition
a feeling that something bad will happen I have this strange foreboding that your ski vacation will not turn out well, so be extra careful

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • premonition
  • feel
  • fear
  • presentiment
  • suspicion
  • presage
  • worry
  • prognostication
  • anticipation
  • anxiety
  • portent
  • unease
  • apprehensiveness
  • omen
  • apprehension
  • uneasiness
  • foreknowledge
  • dread
  • intuition
  • sign
  • impression
  • insight
  • nervousness
  • concern
  • disquiet
  • anxiousness
  • augury
  • perturbation
  • doubt
  • prescience
  • misgiving
  • agitation
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • foresight
  • care
2
as in portent
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event used to think that if he saw a blackbird fly over his left shoulder it was a foreboding of harm

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • portent
  • foreshadowing
  • forerunner
  • omen
  • boding
  • hint
  • precursor
  • presage
  • prediction
  • prefiguring
  • herald
  • augury
  • suggestion
  • auspice
  • harbinger
  • prophecy
  • straw in the wind
  • intimation
  • inkling
  • foretaste
  • badge
  • forewarning
  • foretelling
  • forecast
  • prophesy
  • prognostication
  • token
  • divination
  • mark
  • note
3
as in dread
suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune a pessimist who is always overcome by a sense of foreboding before flying on an airplane

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • dread
  • fearfulness
  • unease
  • apprehensiveness
  • anxiety
  • uncertainty
  • worry
  • apprehension
  • concern
  • uneasiness
  • misgiving
  • disquietude
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • suspense
  • anxiousness
  • disquiet
  • wariness
  • distress
  • perturbation
  • premonition
  • funk
  • pessimism
  • mistrust
  • suspiciousness
  • incertitude
  • doubt
  • disturbance
  • agitation
  • solicitude
  • defeatism
  • presentiment
  • foreknowledge
  • presage
  • scruple

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • anticipation
  • excitement
  • hopefulness
  • hope
  • optimism
  • confidence
  • sanguinity
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foreboding

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verb

variants also forboding
present participle of forebode
as in boding
to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome the dry summer doesn't forebode well for the harvest

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • boding
  • promising
  • predicting
  • warning
  • forecasting
  • anticipating
  • presaging
  • auguring
  • indicating
  • foreshadowing
  • foretelling
  • bidding fair
  • portending
  • implying
  • forewarning
  • betokening
  • prophesying
  • foreseeing
  • prognosticating
  • hinting
  • divining
  • intimating
  • prefiguring
  • foreknowing
  • alluding
  • connoting
  • signifying
  • harbingering
  • suggesting
  • presignifying
  • insinuating
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