What does boding mean?
Boding means foreboding, ominous, portending..
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/ˈbəʊdɪŋ/ · adjective
foreboding, ominous, portending..
[E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […]
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Boding means foreboding, ominous, portending..
Common synonyms include inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […]
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