FromMiddle Englishforbodyng,vorboding, equivalent tofore- +bode +-ing. CompareGermanVorbote(“harbinger, omen”).
foreboding (pluralforebodings)
- Asense ofevil tocome.
- Synonym:augury
1876 November,Henry James, Jr., chapter XIII, inThe American, Boston, Mass.:James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published5 May 1877,→OCLC,page229:To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort offoreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.
1956,Arthur C. Clarke,The City and the Stars, page41:A sense offoreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
1976 December 25, John Atteridg, “Going Home for the Holidays”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number26, page18:I feel a slightforeboding about going home this year.
- An evilomen
The news possessed me withforeboding.
sense of evil to come
- Bulgarian:проко́ба (bg)(prokóba)
- Catalan:pressentiment (ca) m,presagi (ca) m
- Czech:zlá předtucha f
- Dutch:slecht voorgevoel n
- Finnish:pahaaavistus
- French:mauvais pressentiment m,mauvais présage m
- Georgian:წინათგრძნობა(c̣inatgrʒnoba),ცუდი წინათგრძნობა(cudi c̣inatgrʒnoba),ცუდის მომასწავებელი(cudis momasc̣avebeli),ცუდის მომასწავებელი ნიშანი(cudis momasc̣avebeli nišani)
- German:Ahnung (de) f,Vorahnung (de) f
- Italian:brutto presentimento m
- Latin:praesāgium n
- Macedonian:про́коба f(prókoba),ја́нѕа f(jándza),пре́тчувство n(prétčuvstvo)
- Maori:parangēki
- Occitan:marrida pressentida f,marrit pressentiment m,fumada (oc) f
- Portuguese:maupressentimento m
- Romanian:presimțire rea f,presentiment rău n
- Russian:предчу́вствие (ru) n(predčúvstvije),дурно́е предчу́вствие n(durnóje predčúvstvije)
- Serbo-Croatian:zla slutnja
- Spanish:malpresentimiento
- Turkish:malum olma,önsezi (tr),sezi (tr)
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foreboding (comparativemoreforeboding,superlativemostforeboding)
- Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
- Synonyms:inauspicious,portentous;see alsoThesaurus:ominous
2018, “Blood on the Street”, performed by Soulfly:Blood on the street /Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next
foreboding
- presentparticiple andgerund offorebode
