foreboding
noun
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L320862 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L336893 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
- 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”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
- A sense of evil to come.
“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.”
- An evil omen.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
- present participle and gerund of forebode