Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to
announce. See Bode v. t.]
1. To foretell.
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2. 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.
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His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson.
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Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
and desolation, as the certain consequence of
C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton.
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I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
portend; betoken.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Foreboding \Fore*bod"ing\, n.
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
foreboding
adj : of ominous significance [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous]
n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of
foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the
judge would dismiss the case" [syn: premonition, presentiment,
boding]
2: an unfavorable omen
WordNet (r) 2.0
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "foreboding":
abusive, actuarial prediction, advance notice, affect, affection,
agitated, agitation, all-overish, all-overs, angst, anxiety,
anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench,
anxious concern, anxious seat, anxioused up, anxiousness,
apocalypse, apocalyptic, apprehension, apprehensive,
apprehensiveness, augury, bad, baleful, baneful, black,
bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, bothered, browbeating,
bulldozing, bullying, cankerworm of care, care, clairvoyance,
commination, comminatory, concern, concerned, concernment, dark,
denunciation, denunciatory, dire, disquiet, disquieted,
disquietude, distress, disturbance, disturbed, doomful, doubt,
dread, dreary, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade,
empty threat, evil, evil-starred, experience, fateful, fear,
fear-inspiring, fearful, feeling, feeling tone, forebodingness,
forecast, forecasting, forefeeling, foreknowing, foreknowledge,
forerunning, foreseeability, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresight,
foretelling, foretoken, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling,
gloomy, guesswork, gut reaction, heartthrob, hectoring, hunch,
idle threat, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred,
imminence, imminent, implied threat, impression, improbability,
in a pucker, in a stew, inauspicious, inquietude, intimation,
intimidating, intimidation, intuition, intuitive impression,
lowering, malaise, menace, menacing, minacious, minatory,
misgiving, nervous, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness,
of evil portent, omen, ominous, on tenterhooks, overanxiety,
overanxious, overapprehensive, passion, perturbation, perturbed,
pins and needles, plenty of notice, portending, portent,
portentous, preapprehension, precautional, precautionary,
precautioning, precognition, precursive, precursory, prediction,
prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premonition,
premonitory, prenotice, prenotification, prenotion, presage,
presaging, prescience, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying,
prewarning, probability, prodromal, prodromic, profound sense,
prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, promise, promise of harm,
prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, pucker, qualm, qualmishness,
reaction, response, sensation, sense, sentiment, sign, sinister,
solicitous, solicitude, somber, soothsay, speculation,
statistical prediction, stew, strain, strained, suspense,
suspenseful, suspicion, sword of Damocles, tense, tension,
terroristic, terrorizing, threat, threatening, threateningness,
threatful, threatfulness, trouble, troubled, undercurrent,
uneasiness, uneasy, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising,
unpropitious, unquietness, untoward, upset, vague feeling,
vague idea, vaticination, vexation, warning, zeal, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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