Foreboding

Noun

 * 1) A sense of evil to come.
 * 2) An evil omen.

Quotations

 * 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 41
 * A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.

Adjective

 * 1) Of ominous significance.

Verb
foreboding



Verbs for Foreboding
arouse—; assail by—; cast aside—; disperse—; fly from—; heed—; realize—; relate—; ridicule—; —advises; —betokens; — divines; —foretells; —oppresses; —overhangs; —prophesies; —signifies; —warns.

Synonyms for Foreboding
augury, omen, premonition, worry, portent, dread, concern, presentiment, prediction, prognostication, fear.

Thesaurus
abusive, actuarial prediction, advance notice, affect, affection, agitated, agitation, all-overish, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxioused up, anxiousness, apocalypse, apocalyptic, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, augury, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, bothered, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cankerworm of care, care, clairvoyance, commination, comminatory, concern, concerned, concernment, dark, denunciation, denunciatory, dire, disquiet, disquieted, disquietude, distress, disturbance, disturbed, doomful, doubt, dread, dreary, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, empty threat, evil, evil-starred, experience, fateful, fear, fear-inspiring, fearful, feeling, feeling tone, forebodingness, forecast, forecasting, forefeeling, foreknowing, foreknowledge, forerunning, foreseeability, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, foretoken, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, gloomy, guesswork, gut reaction, heartthrob, hectoring, hunch, idle threat, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imminence, imminent, implied threat, impression, improbability, in a pucker, in a stew, inauspicious, inquietude, intimation, intimidating, intimidation, intuition, intuitive impression, lowering, malaise, menace, menacing, minacious, minatory, misgiving, nervous, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, of evil portent, omen, ominous, on tenterhooks, overanxiety, overanxious, overapprehensive, passion, perturbation, perturbed, pins and needles, plenty of notice, portending, portent, portentous, preapprehension, precautional, precautionary, precautioning, precognition, precursive, precursory, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premonition, premonitory, prenotice, prenotification, prenotion, presage, presaging, prescience, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prewarning, probability, prodromal, prodromic, profound sense, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, promise, promise of harm, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, pucker, qualm, qualmishness, reaction, response, sensation, sense, sentiment, sign, sinister, solicitous, solicitude, somber, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, stew, strain, strained, suspense, suspenseful, suspicion, sword of Damocles, tense, tension, terroristic, terrorizing, threat, threatening, threateningness, threatful, threatfulness, trouble, troubled, undercurrent, uneasiness, uneasy, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unquietness, untoward, upset, vague feeling, vague idea, vaticination, vexation, warning, zeal, zealous

Alternative forms

 * forboding

Noun

 * Bosnian: zla slutnja
 * Bulgarian: прокоба


 * French: mauvais présentiment
 * Spanish: mal presentimiento


 * Bosnian: predznak zla


 * Finnish: paha enne