foreboding

Plural: forebodings

Noun

• a feeling of evil to come
  • "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"
• an unfavorable omen
• A sense of evil to come.
• An evil omen

Verb

• make a prediction about; tell in advance
• present participle and gerund of forebode

Adjective Satellite

• ominously prophetic

Adj

• Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

Examples

• The news possessed me with foreboding.

Synonyms

anticipate, boding, call, fateful, forebode, foretell, portentous, predict, premonition, presentiment, prognosticate, promise, augurous, augury, baleful, bodeful, brooding, dire, disastrous, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, nefastous, omenic, ominous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen

Anagrams of foreboding