foreboding

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Still it had been an eerie sound that gave me a foreboding, added to her warning words.

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  1. noun A sense of impending evil or misfortune.
  2. noun An evil omen; a portent.
  3. adjective Marked by or indicative of foreboding; ominous.

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  • The miserable remnant watched his receding sails with dreary foreboding, a foreboding which seemed but too just, when, on the next day, a storm, more violent than the Indians had ever known, howled through the forest and lashed the ocean into fury, Most forlorn was the plight of these exiles, left, it might be, the prey of a band of ferocious bigots more terrible than the fiercest hordes of the wilderness. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
  • But I must confess of late to a recurring sense of foreboding, about a great many things. —  The Doctor Is In
  • More foreboding is a look at the past few weeks. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • I had a foreboding, and I went down. —  The Burial of the Guns
  • The fact that his foreboding was quite as black as hers did not prevent —  The Thrall of Leif the Lucky
 

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premonition ·  misgiving ·  unease ·  uneasiness ·  sadness ·  dismay ·  perplexity ·  dread ·  suspense ·  remorse ·  unhappiness ·  dejection
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/foʊrˈboʊdɪŋ/
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