foreboding as a noun: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
foreboding
noun
1 foreboding
A feeling of evil to come:
— A steadily escalating sense of foreboding.
synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment.
Roget 64:
precursor,
antecedent,
precedent,
predecessor;
forerunner,
vancourier†,
avant-coureur [Fr.],
pioneer,
prodrome†,
prodromos†,
prodromus†,
outrider;
leader,
bellwether;
herald,
harbinger;
foreboding;
dawn;
avant-courier,
avant-garde,
bellmare†,
forelooper†,
foreloper†,
stalking-horse,
voorlooper [Afrik.],
voortrekker [Afrik.].
prelude,
preamble,
preface,
prologue,
foreword,
avant-propos [Fr.],
protasis†,
proemium†,
prolusion†,
proem,
prolepsis [Gramm.],
prolegomena,
prefix,
introduction;
heading,
frontispiece,
groundwork;
preparation
etc.
673;
overture,
exordium [Lat.],
symphony;
premises.
prefigurement
etc.
511;
omen
etc.
512.
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Roget 511:
prediction,
announcement;
program,
programme [Brit.]
etc.
(plan)
626;
premonition
etc.
(warning)
668;
prognosis,
prophecy,
vaticination,
mantology†,
prognostication,
premonstration†;
augury,
auguration†;
ariolation†,
hariolation†;
foreboding,
aboding†;
bodement†,
abodement†;
omniation†,
omniousness†;
auspices,
forecast;
omen
etc.
512;
horoscope,
nativity;
sooth†,
soothsaying;
fortune telling,
crystal gazing;
divination;
necromancy
etc.
992.
[Divination by the stars]
astrology†,
horoscopy†,
judicial astrology†.
[Place of Prediction].
adytum
prefiguration†,
prefigurement;
prototype,
type.
[person who predicts]
oracle
etc.
513.
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Dutch: voorgevoel
2 foreboding
adjective
1 foreboding
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