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foreboding
Synonyms and Antonyms of foreboding
- Foreboding war clouds began to gather.
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, wretched
discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious
ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky
foreboding
Synonyms and Antonyms of foreboding
- I have this strange foreboding that your ski vacation will not turn out well, so be extra careful.
agitation, alarm (also alarum), anxiety, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, care, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, fear, misgiving, nervousness, unease, uneasiness, worry
- used to think that if he saw a blackbird fly over his left shoulder it was a foreboding of harm
straw in the wind
- a pessimist who is always overcome by a sense of foreboding before flying on an airplane
alarm (also alarum), apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, misgiving
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