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Foreboding

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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"

Adjective
  1. 1
    ominously prophetic wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A sense of evil to come. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    an unfavorable omen wordnet
  3. 3
    An evil omen. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a feeling of evil to come wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of forebode form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).

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