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Meanings of foreboding in English

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pressentiment

A feeling of evil to come.

pressentiment

Ominously prophetic.

Related terms

A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.

Usage of foreboding in English
1
I simply trudged behind him as my sense of grim foreboding grew.
Dexter in the Dark
2
Tiaan kept on, following his directions with an increasing sense of foreboding.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
3
This year the sense of foreboding was made worse by the weather.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
4
It was invariably cold, damp, gloomy and foreboding, particularly for the opposition.
The Irish Times
5
He was living very much in the present-anugly and foreboding present.
The Kingdom of the Blind
6
Sometimes its weight makes me happy; sometimes it fills me with foreboding.
The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary
7
And again the man in all his strength felt that dread foreboding.
Helen of the Old House
8
Under that hot stabbing stare he rode on feeling a new foreboding.
Blood and Bone
9
His face blanched; his heart sank with a certain foreboding of evil.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
10
We say foreboding because in this case it is not mistaken diction.
The Blind Spot
11
For a moment we hesitated, the same foreboding in both our minds.
The Metal Monster
12
With each street we checked I felt an increasing sense of foreboding.
Empty mile
13
Some dim sense of foreboding was beginning to steal in upon him.
The Kingdom of the Blind
14
But she found her colleagues still in a condition of pessimistic foreboding.
The Little Warrior
15
She gave Spencer a final foreboding look and disappeared around the corner.
Wanted
16
Unlike Gavin, the only sense I was getting was one of foreboding.
The ghost chronicles
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