foreboding
verb
- 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
- 1
A sense of evil to come.
- 2
An evil omen.
Synonyms
adjective
- 1
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
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