A feeling of evil to come.

synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment.

Roget 668: warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice etc. (information) 527; premonition, premonishment^†; prediction etc. 511; contraindication, lesson, dehortation^†; admonition, monition; alarm etc. 669.    handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra^†, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens^†, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.    watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse etc. (indication of locality) 550.    sentinel, sentry, , watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog^†, housedog^†; patrol, patrolman, vedette^†, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial^†; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.    cautiousness etc. 864.    monitor, guard camera, radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the-sky, U2 plane, spy plane.    ... show more

Roget 477: intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology^†; faith (supposition) 514.    sophistry, paralogy^†, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet^†, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness etc. adj.; nonsense etc. 497; word sense, tongue sense.    false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning; petitio principii [Lat.], ignoratio elenchi [Lat.]; post hoc ergo propter hoc [Lat.]; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius [Lat.].    misjudgment etc. 481; false teaching etc. 538.    sophism, solecism, paralogism^†; quibble, quirk, elenchus^†, elench^†, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet^†; inconsistency, antilogy^†; a delusion, a mockery, and a snare" [Denman]; claptrap, cant, mere words; lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]. meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry; flaw in an argument; weak point, bad case.    overrefinement^†; hairsplitting etc. v.. ... show more

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.    ... show more

Dutch: voorgevoel

An early warning about a future event.

synonym: forewarning.

Dutch: voorgevoel