foreboding
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7.3
- adjective
- /fɔːrˈboʊdɪŋ/
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presagioso
- The dark clouds gathered overhead, creating a foreboding sense of an incoming storm.
Same thing, all atmosphere, amazing experimental photography of these kind of foreboding shadow figures.
- Same thing, all atmosphere, amazing experimental photography of these kind of foreboding shadow figures.
Examples
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In this way, for likely hours, there must have been an eerie, foreboding sense of tension.
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The problem was further complicated by the foreboding reality of desertification.
Academic text (1996) -
Then an orchestra began to play dark, foreboding music.
Fiction book (1998) -
A foreboding atmosphere fills the air.
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Despite its recent facelift, it looks just as foreboding as it did in "Halloween I."
Fiction book (1995) -
Dick sets out on one more of the day's pilgrimages, all of them so lonely and foreboding to him.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the dark, the vegetation was daunting, a foreboding sight.
Fiction book (2002) -
The gap in the mountainside was appropriately dark and foreboding.
Fiction book (1990) -
ASH stares over the castle wall to the foreboding wasteland with apprehension.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's sublime and has strong undercurrents of foreboding and great pathos, yet is beautiful in its simplicity.
Blog text (14)
Synonyms
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6.4
Makes you feel that something bad will happen
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5.1
A strange, frightening feeling as if ghosts are nearby
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6.1
Giving a feeling that something bad will happen
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8.6
A strong sign that something important or bad will happen
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5.3
Making you feel very scared or worried
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9.8
A sign that warns of something bad that may happen
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8.1
A sign that something bad may happen
Giving a strong feeling that something bad will happen
How Ominous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word foreboding comes from the parts fore- meaning 'before' and bode meaning 'to warn', like in forecast. So a foreboding thing gives a strong warning that something bad is about to happen.