foreboding Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of evil to come
    boding; presentiment; premonition.
    • a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
    • the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
  2. noun an unfavorable omen
  3. verb make a prediction about; tell in advance
    predict; anticipate; forebode; foretell; call; promise; prognosticate.
    • Call the outcome of an election
  4. adjective satellite ominously prophetic
    fateful; portentous.

WordNet


Fore*bod"ing noun
Definitions
  1. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

Webster 1913