Meaning of Foreboding | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sense of evil to come.
   countable, uncountable
2. An evil omen.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.”

“I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.”

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