Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Foreboding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, 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[ae]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
foreboding
adj : of ominous significance [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)}, {portentous}]
n 1: a feeling of evil to come: "a steadily escalating sense of
foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the
judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {premonition}, {presentiment},
{boding}]
2: an unfavorable omen
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