foreboding — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. A sense of evil to come.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Синонимы

   augurypreboding

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (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.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

Прилагательное

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

   Синонимы

   inauspiciousportentous

   Примеры

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

Прилагательное

1. ominously prophetic

   Синонимы

   fatefulportentous

Существительное

1. a feeling of evil to come

   Синонимы

   premonitionpresentimentboding

   Более общие понятия

   apprehensionapprehensivenessdread

   Примеры

   a steadily escalating sense of foreboding

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

2. an unfavorable omen

   Более общие понятия

   omenportentpresageprognosticprognosticationprodigy