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foreboding
fore‧bod‧ing/fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ $ fɔːrˈboʊ-/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE] a strong feeling that something bad is going to happen soon: ▪ She waited for news with a grim sense of foreboding. • • • THESAURUS ▪fear a feeling of being frightened : ▪ He was trembling with fear. ▪ Fear of failure should not stop you trying. ▪terror a feeling of great fear, because you think that something terrible is about to happen : ▪ She let out a scream of pure terror. ▪fright a sudden feeling of fear, or a situation that makes you feel this : ▪ My body was shaking with fright. ▪ You gave me a fright! ▪ He’s had a bit of fright, that’s all. ▪panic a sudden feeling of fear or nervousness that makes you unable to think clearly or behave sensibly : ▪ She was in such a panic that she hardly knew what she was doing! ▪ There were scenes of sheer panic immediately following the bomb blast. ▪alarm a feeling of fear or worry which shows in your voice or behaviour, because you think something bad might happen : ▪ When I mentioned her name, he looked up at me in alarm. ▪ The streets were calm and there was no sign of alarm. ▪foreboding /fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ $ fɔːrˈboʊ-/ a feeling that something bad or unpleasant might happen although there is no obvious reason why it should : ▪ She felt the same sense of foreboding she had before her father died. ▪phobia /ˈfəʊbiə $ ˈfoʊ-/ a permanent strong unreasonable fear of something : ▪ I had a phobia about going to the dentist.
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ "Jeanie, I have to go away," he said, his voice full of foreboding. ▪ As they waited at the airfield, Sara had the same feeling of foreboding that she had felt before her father died. ▪ He had a sudden sense of foreboding. Something was wrong, very wrong. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although the fresh night air was welcome, Jack was again aware of an unusual feeling of dread and foreboding. ▪ But I am not given to entertaining forebodings. ▪ Eating in zero gravity was no real problem, contrary to the dark forebodings of the early astronauts. ▪ Nobody was there, but the air was heavy with a sense of foreboding. ▪ Travelling to the Continent now I feel a gloomy foreboding, for there is a whiff of decline in the air. ▪ Whether Ursula shared her growing sense of foreboding she did not know.
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