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foreboding

verb

Meaning

  • 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.

Synonyms

foretell,
portend,
predict

noun

Meaning

  • A sense of evil to come.

  • An evil omen.

Synonyms

augury

adjective

Meaning

  • Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.