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1. A feeling of evil to come
   "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding";
   - premonition, presentiment, boding
    
2. An unfavourable omen
   - abodement [archaic]

1. Ominously prophetic
   - fateful, portentous

1. Make a prediction about; tell in advance
   - predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, anticipate, promise

Derived forms: forebodings

See also: prophetic, prophetical

Type of: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, guess, hazard, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, pretend, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication, venture

Encyclopedia: Foreboding