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Synonyms & Antonyms of foreboding
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- foreboding clouds began to gather
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- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dim,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
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foreboding
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of foreboding (Entry 2 of 3)
- I have this strange foreboding that your ski vacation will not turn out well, so be extra careful
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- agitation,
- alarm
- (also alarum),
- anxiety,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- care,
- concern,
- disquiet,
- doubt,
- dread,
- fear,
- misgiving,
- nervousness,
- perturbation,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- worry
- used to think that if he saw a blackbird fly over his left shoulder it was a foreboding of harm
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- a pessimist who is always overcome by a sense of foreboding before flying on an airplane
Synonyms for foreboding
- alarm
- (also alarum),
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- dread,
- misgiving
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foreboding
verbSynonyms of foreboding (Entry 3 of 3)
- the dry summer doesn't forebode well for the harvest
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“Foreboding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreboding. Accessed 17 May. 2021.
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The first known use of foreboding was in the 14th century
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