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foreboding
n. act of predicting a future event; sense of future misfortune or doom; sign, omen
 
forebode
v. predict, foretell; sense future misfortune or doom; prophesy


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foreboding
Noun
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"
(synonym) premonition, presentiment, boding
(hypernym) apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
(hyponym) shadow
(derivation) predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
2. an unfavorable omen
(hypernym) omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy
(derivation) predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
Adjective
1. of ominous significance
(synonym) fateful, foreboding(a), portentous
(similar) prophetic, prophetical

 
forebode
Verb
1. make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
(synonym) predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, anticipate, promise
(hypernym) guess, venture, pretend, hazard
(hyponym) read
(derivation) foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding



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foreboding
Synonyms and related words:
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
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

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foreboding
foreboding /fɔ:'boudiɳ/
danh từ sự báo trước, điềm sự có linh tính (về một điềm gở) (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) sự đoán trước, lời tiên đoán tính từ báo trước, điềm (gở...) (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) tiên đoán, tiên tri
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Dizionario inglese-italiano 1.0.012Download this dictionary
FOREBODING
PRESAGIO. PRESENTIMENTO. PREDIZIONE. PRONOSTICO. PRESAGENDO

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