foreboding — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A sense of evil to come.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Sinônimos

   augurypreboding

   Exemplos

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   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

   • contável
   • incontável

Adjetivo

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

   Sinônimos

   inauspiciousportentous

   Exemplos

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

Adjetivo

1. ominously prophetic

   Sinônimos

   fatefulportentous

Substantivo

1. a feeling of evil to come

   Sinônimos

   premonitionpresentimentboding

   Termos mais gerais

   apprehensionapprehensivenessdread

   Exemplos

   a steadily escalating sense of foreboding

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

2. an unfavorable omen

   Termos mais gerais

   omenportentpresageprognosticprognosticationprodigy