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Meaning of foreboding

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

foreboding

verb

Definitions

  1. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

  2. 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.

noun

Definitions

  1. A sense of evil to come.

  2. An evil omen.

adjective

Definitions

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