Word Finder - foreboding

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

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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.

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A sense of evil to come.

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An evil omen.

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

She wandered around the house with a foreboding that this was the last time she would see it.

He did not know why, but he felt a foreboding that he would not carry out his intention.

He felt the sense of foreboding again, the unseen danger toward Katie.

Sofia shrugged the sense of foreboding away and stuffed her hands into her pockets.

Despite his foreboding, he left the chamber and sent word for Vara to meet him at the main gate.

The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds.

He prophesied in London as Isaiah prophesied to the little towns of Palestine and Syria, "often with dark foreboding, but seeing through all unrest and convulsion the working out of a sure divine purpose."

Jesus goes with grim foreboding, expecting to suffer.

Some themes are dark and foreboding, while others may be light and cheery.

The hefty two-lb. dragon has a wingspan that can cast a giant foreboding shadow over an entire castle.

Although it is preceded by a "Good Friday" in Christianity, the somber tone of the events as a whole gives the day a sense of foreboding.

A sense of foreboding passed through her as she reluctantly followed the servant from the bedroom into a wide hall with gaudy gilded furniture and picture frames.

It's a downbeat experience, and the presence of those nets with the trapped and decaying fish makes it all the more foreboding.

The MRI and CT scanners are large and rather foreboding - they can also make a rather threatening noise when they are working.

We then see Reece driving around... Jo, an extremely likable character, is clearly in danger; a sense of foreboding lingers.

If your fairy look is darker and more foreboding, then your makeup should complement it.

It wouldn't be surprising if he did, however, since shoe lifts are a common prop used in films to make the actors look taller or even more foreboding.

Masks can be beautiful, funny or foreboding, but the preference is mostly for the first two - Mardi Gras is a happy occasion.

They've always held a sense of foreboding and doom, and they've set the people who wear them apart from the mainstream crowd.

I must confess that I did not feel the slightest foreboding.

It powerfully suggests the coming Passion, being full of dark and gloomy foreboding.

Wayne Manor is large and foreboding, not at all a place you can imagine a young Bruce growing up with his loving mother and father.

The season closes in true Smallville fashion with plenty of tension leaving viewers with a sense of foreboding.

Rather than feel privileged by her visit, he felt his sense of foreboding grew stronger.

At the end of the novel, Danny has a foreboding about the forthcoming era, marked by the arrival of the Red Army.

Need to create a sense of dark foreboding at what might envelope the lead character, use a dream sequence.

Urban Boundaries sells a sleek black backpack with foreboding red logo for a drmatic look and cinch enclosure for ease of use.

Foreboding filled her at the expression on the deity's face, like she'd just won the lottery.

The album starts with the instantly recognizable and foreboding Terminator theme and gets progressively ominous from there.

For the most part, the blue skies and hillsides are natural and the less desirable locations are dark and foreboding.

They viewed with displeasure and foreboding the fall of Iturbide's empire and the creation of the republic. They were not treasonable, but talked much, refusing allegiance to the new government; and as they controlled the resources of the colony and the good will of the Indians, they felt their strength against the local authority; besides, they were its constant benefactors.

And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.

In the grasp of a more inexorable necessity, the champion of Greek freedom was borne onward to a more tremendous catastrophe than that which strewed the waters of Salamis with Persian wrecks and the field of Plataea with Persian dead; but to him, at least, it was given to proclaim aloud the clear and sure foreboding that filled his soul, to do all that true heart and free hand could do for his cause, and, though not to save, yet to encourage, to console and to ennoble.