foreboding
Meaning of foreboding
- To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- 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.
- A sense of evil to come.
- An evil omen.
adjective
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Information about foreboding
- The plural form of foreboding is: forebodings.
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Hyphenation of foreboding
fore-bod-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- foreboding is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
foreboding synonyms
Meaning fateful:
Meaning premonition:
premonition, presentiment, boding
Meaning :
foretell, portend, predict, augury
Translation of foreboding
- French: présage, augure, auspice
- Spanish: presagio, augurio
- Italian: presagio, augurio
- Portuguese: presságio, agouro
- German: Omen
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