foreboding

verb

  1. 1

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

  2. 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. 1

    A sense of evil to come.

  2. 2

    An evil omen.

Synonyms

adjective

  1. 1

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

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