foreboding — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. A sense of evil to come.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Sinónimos

   augurypreboding

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.

   A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.

   I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.

2. An evil omen.

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

Adjetivo

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

   Sinónimos

   inauspiciousportentous

   Ejemplos

   Blood on the street / Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next

Adjetivo

1. ominously prophetic

   Sinónimos

   fatefulportentous

Sustantivo

1. a feeling of evil to come

   Sinónimos

   premonitionpresentimentboding

   Términos más generales

   apprehensionapprehensivenessdread

   Ejemplos

   a steadily escalating sense of foreboding

   the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case

2. an unfavorable omen

   Términos más generales

   omenportentpresageprognosticprognosticationprodigy