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NOUN (2)

1. a feeling of evil to come;
- Example: "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"
- Example: "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
[syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding]

2. an unfavorable omen;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. ominously prophetic;
[syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to
   announce. See Bode v. t.]
   1. To foretell.
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   2. 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.
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            His heart forebodes a mystery.        --Tennyson.
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            Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
            and desolation, as the certain consequence of
            C[ae]sar's death.                     --Middleton.
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            I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.

   Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
        portend; betoken.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Foreboding \Fore*bod"ing\, n.
   Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

foreboding
    adj 1: ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a),
           portentous]
    n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of
         foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge
         would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition,
         presentiment, boding]
    2: an unfavorable omen