Usually means: Anticipation of something bad happening.
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  1. foreboding: Merriam-Webster
  2. foreboding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foreboding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foreboding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foreboding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foreboding, foreboding: Wordnik
  7. foreboding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. foreboding: Wiktionary
  9. foreboding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foreboding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foreboding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Foreboding, foreboding: Dictionary.com
  13. foreboding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Foreboding (film), Foreboding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Foreboding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. foreboding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. foreboding: Rhymezone
  18. foreboding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. foreboding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. foreboding: FreeDictionary.org
  21. foreboding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. foreboding: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. foreboding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. foreboding: Legal dictionary

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  1. Foreboding: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A sense of evil to come.
▸ noun:  An evil omen.
▸ adjective:  Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

Similar:
boding, portentous, fateful, prophetical, presentiment, prophetic, premonition, forebodement, presaging, foreboder, more...

Opposite:
auspicious, promising, hopeful, optimistic

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ominous, sinister, portentous, menacing, threatening, more...

Phrases:
foreboding note from the boss, opposite of foreboding, sense of foreboding, feeling of foreboding, foreboding sign, more...

Adjectives:
dark, gloomy, strange, sad, vague, deep, ominous, more, terrible, dim, melancholy

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Similar:
boding, portentous, fateful, prophetical, presentiment, prophetic, premonition, forebodement, presaging, foreboder, more...

Opposite:
auspicious, promising, hopeful, optimistic

Types:
ominous, sinister, portentous, menacing, threatening, more...

Phrases:
foreboding note from the boss, opposite of foreboding, sense of foreboding, feeling of foreboding, foreboding sign, foreboding note from a professor, foreboding signs, foreboding person, more...

Adjectives:
dark, gloomy, strange, sad, vague, deep, ominous, more, terrible, dim, melancholy

Colors:
    black,     dark gray,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     deep purple, more...



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