foreboding

[US]/fɔː'bəʊdɪŋ/

[UK]/fɔr'bodɪŋ/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a sense of impending misfortune
adj. having a sense of impending misfortune

with a sense of foreboding she read the note.

She had a foreboding of danger.

The sky was dull, with a foreboding of rain.

She had a foreboding that she's never see him again.

I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.

I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me.

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