foreboding

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A sense of evil to come.
2. An evil omen

Adj

Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

Verb

present participle and gerund of forebode

forebode

• Verb
• Noun

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Concepts

pressentiment

présage

prémonition

mauvais pressentiment

augure

présageant

auspice

fatidique

Synonymes

premonition

presentiment

presage

augury

omen

hunch

portent

foretoken

portentous

inauspicious

ominous

ill-omened

foreshadowing

misgiving

indication

auspice

sign

harbinger

prognostication

boding

fateful

intuition

unlucky

inkling

ill-omende

forewarning

feeling

bodement

portending

fancy

daydream

cue

clue

baleful

abode

reverie

anxiety

sinister

threatening

rain clouds

vision

dark clouds

memory

imagination

gloominess

Traductions

Vorahnung

presentimento

presentimiento

Ahnung

pressentimento

presagio

Vorgefühl

presságio

pressentiment

voorgevoel

malaugurio

ahnend

mau agouro

agouro

προαίσθημα

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: forbodyng

Appartenant à allemand: Vorbote

In summary

From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).