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foreboding - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'foreboding' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Foreboding [ n.]
- Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
2 . Foreboding [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Forebode

Meaning of 'foreboding' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . foreboding [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a feeling of evil to come
Example in sentence:
  • a steadily escalating sense of foreboding;
  • the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case