What does foreboding mean?
Foreboding means A sense of evil to come..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A sense of evil to come..
To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.
A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.
Blood on the street / Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next
Use foreboding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Foreboding means A sense of evil to come..
Common synonyms include augury, preboding, inauspicious, portentous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.
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