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/fɔrbˈoʊdɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Foreboding n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

verb

Forebode v. t. (past & past part. foreboded; pres. part. foreboding)

To foretell.

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. "His heart forebodes a mystery." "Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death." "I have a sort of foreboding about him."

Synonyms: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Forebode v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur. "If I forebode aright."

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Etymology of 'Foreboding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foreboding" Quotes from Famous Books

... taken from a sketch by the author called "The Irish Prophecy-man," contains a very appropriate illustration of the above passage. "I have a little book that contains a prophecy of the milk-white hind an' the bloody panther, an' a foreboding of the slaughter there's to be in the Valley of the Black Pig, as foretould by Beal Derg, or the prophet wid the red mouth, who never was known to speak but when he prophesied, or to prophesy ...

— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... type; there is no democracy of hands. Some hands tell me that they do everything with the maximum of bustle and noise. Other hands are fidgety and unadvised, with nervous, fussy fingers which indicate a nature sensitive to the little pricks of daily life. Sometimes I recognize with foreboding the kindly but stupid hand of one who tells with many words news that is no news. I have met a bishop with a jocose hand, a humourist with a hand of leaden gravity, a man of pretentious valour with a timorous ...

— The World I Live In • Helen Keller

... on the piano, felt no foreboding of evil, and flirted charmingly with him. At first her unconsciousness wounded him, then he took Masha's very unconsciousness as a happy omen, and was rejoiced and reassured by it. She had grown fonder and fonder of him every ...

— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... only a day or two later that the telephone rang, and Julia, answering it, as she always did now, with chill foreboding in her heart, heard ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... in half an hour." Scott disappeared down the trail. Polly watched him a moment or two and then returned to her resting place. Something of the happiness was gone from her eyes. The accident was ill-timed. It brought a feeling of foreboding most disagreeable in its contrast with her former exaltation. She jumped to her feet determined to do something to take her mind off the ...

— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall

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