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fore·bod·ing
 foreboding
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- pronunciation:
- for
bo
dIng
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
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noun |
| definition: |
a strong feeling or a portent, usu. that something bad is going to happen.
She awoke from a nightmare and was filled with a terrible foreboding.- synonyms:
- apprehension, premonition, presentiment
- antonyms:
- calm
- similar words:
- anticipation, dread, foreknowledge, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, prescience, suspicion
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| related words: |
apprehension, herald, threat, worry |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
marked by or causing a feeling or portent of ill to come.
The director wanted foreboding music to play whenever the shark was about to make an entrance.- synonyms:
- ominous, portentous, sinister
- similar words:
- disquieting, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, unpropitious
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| related words: |
fatal, forbidding |
| derivation: |
forebodingly (adv.) |
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