foreboding : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: foreboding	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for foreboding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foreboding adj ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous] n a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" Synonym(s): foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding an unfavorable omen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forebode \Forebode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foreboded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foreboding}.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See {Bode} v. t.] 1. To foretell. 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. His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding* nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[91]sar's death. --Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James. Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foreboding \Fore*bod"ing\, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.