foreboding
noun
[ fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ ]
• a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.
• "with a sense of foreboding she read the note"
Similar:
apprehension,
apprehensiveness,
anxiety,
perturbation,
trepidation,
disquiet,
disquietude,
unease,
uneasiness,
misgiving,
suspicion,
worry,
fear,
fearfulness,
dread,
alarm,
butterflies (in the stomach),
the willies,
the heebie-jeebies,
the jitters,
jitteriness,
twitchiness,
inquietude,
premonition,
presentiment,
intuition,
feeling,
vague feeling,
inkling,
hunch,
warning,
omen,
portent,
sign,
token,
prediction,
augury,
prophecy,
presage,
prognostication,
forecast,
gut feeling,
feeling in one's bones,
funny feeling,
sixth sense,
foreboding
adjective
• implying that something bad is going to happen.
• "when the Doctor spoke, his voice was dark and foreboding"
forebode
verb
• (of a situation or occurrence) act as an advance warning of (something bad).
• "this lull foreboded some new assault upon him"
Similar:
presage,
augur,
portend,
prognosticate,
foreshadow,
foreshow,
foretell,
forecast,
predict,
prophesy,
forewarn,
warn of,
be a warning of,
herald,
be an omen of,
be a harbinger of,
signify,
mean,
indicate,
add up to,
point to,
announce,
promise,
spell,
foretoken,
betoken,
harbinger,
prefigure,
