foreboding
31forebodingly — foreboding ► NOUN ▪ fearful apprehension. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ ominous. DERIVATIVES forebodingly adverb …
32ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,… …
33ominous — adjective ominous clouds Syn: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising; portentous, foreboding, fateful, premonitory; black, dark, gloomy; formal minatory; literary direful; rare… …
34Forebode — 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction… …
35Foreboded — 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward… …
36threat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Declaration of intention to harm Nouns 1. threat, menace, intimidation, commination, minacity, terrorism; empty threat, fulmination, sword or saber rattling; defiance; yellow menace or peril; blackmail,… …
37apprehension — 1 arrest, detention, attachment (see under ARREST vb) Analogous words: seizing or seizure, taking (see corresponding verbs at TAKE): capturing or capture, catching (see corresponding verbs at CATCH) Contrasted words: releasing or release,… …
38presage — [pres′ij; ] for v. [ prē sāj′, pri sāj′, pres′ij] n. [ME < MFr < L praesagium, a foreboding < prae , before + sagire, to perceive: see PRE & SAGACIOUS] 1. a sign or warning of a future event; omen; portent; augury 2. a foreboding;… …
39boding — noun 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: ↑foreboding, ↑premonition, ↑presentiment • Derivationally related forms: ↑forebode …
40fore|bod´ing|ly — fore|bod|ing «fr BOH dihng, fohr », noun, adjective. –n. 1. a prediction; warning: »She disregarded the Gypsy s foreboding that she would regret marrying. SYNONYM(S): omen, portent. 2. a feeling that something bad is going to happen: »The sailor… …
