foreboding
noun/fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ/
/fɔːrˈbəʊdɪŋ/
[uncountable, countable]- a strong feeling that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen
- She had a sense of foreboding that the news would be bad.
- The letter filled him with foreboding.
- He knew from her face that his forebodings had been justified.
Extra ExamplesTopics Dangerc2- He returned, full of foreboding, to the scene of the accident.
- I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
- She had a foreboding of danger.
- The sky was dull, with a foreboding of rain.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- deep
- feel
- have
- be full of
- …
- foreboding of
- a feeling of foreboding
- a sense of foreboding
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