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Webster 1913 Edition


Foreboding

Fore-bod′ing

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Noun.
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

Webster 1828 Edition


Foreboding

FOREBO'DING

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ppr.
Prognosticating; foretelling; foreknowing.

FOREBO'DING

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Noun.
Prognostication.

Definition 2024


foreboding

foreboding

English

Alternative forms

Noun

foreboding (plural forebodings)

  1. A sense of evil to come.
    • 1956Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 41
      A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
  2. An evil omen.

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Adjective

foreboding (comparative more foreboding, superlative most foreboding)

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

Verb

foreboding

  1. present participle of forebode