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foreboding
Synonyms and Antonyms of foreboding
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
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
discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious
ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky
foreboding
Synonyms and Antonyms of foreboding
1
a feeling that something bad will happen
agitation, alarm (also alarum), anxiety, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, care, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, fear, misgiving, nervousness, perturbation, unease, uneasiness, worry
2
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event
straw in the wind
3
suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune
alarm (also alarum), apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, misgiving
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