🔄 Synonyms of "Foreboding"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| portentous | Of momentous or ominous significance. |
| premonitionnoun | A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively). |
| fateful | Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate. |
| presentimentnoun | A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen. |
| boding | foreboding, ominous, portending. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Foreboding"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| boding | foreboding, ominous, portending. |
| portentous | Of momentous or ominous significance. |
| presentimentnoun | A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen. |
| premonitionnoun | A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively). |
| prophetical | prophetic |
| fateful | Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate. |
| prophetic | Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet. |
| omennoun | Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury. |
| presagenoun | A warning of a future event; an omen. |
| understandingnoun | (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning. |
| feelingnoun | Emotion; impression. |
| apprehensionnoun | Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future. |
| anxietynoun | An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. |
| dreadnoun | Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. |
| fearnoun | (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. |
| trepidationnoun | Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence. |
| hunchnoun | A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. |
| vibenoun | (informal, originally New Age jargon, often in the plural) An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing. |
| forebodementnoun | (dated) The act of foreboding. |
| forebodernoun | (uncountable) Something that implies the imminent occurrence of another event. |
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