foreboding

Noun · Adjective
Synonyms: premonitionpresentimentbodingfatefulforeboding(a)portentous

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  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”Synonyms: premonitionpresentimentboding
  2. an unfavorable omen

Adjective (1)

  1. ominously propheticSynonyms: fatefulforeboding(a)portentous
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

His heart forebodes a mystery.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]
Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[ae]sar's death.— Middleton.[1913 Webster]
I have a sort of foreboding about him.— H. James.

Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. [1913 Webster]

Foreboding \Fore*bod"ing\, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. [1913 Webster]
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