foreboding
nounEtymology
From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
- inherited from forbodyng
Definitions
A sense of evil to come.
- To me there is something sad in his life, and sometimes I have a sort of foreboding about him. I don't know why, but I fancy he will have some great trouble—perhaps an unhappy end.
- A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
- I feel a slight foreboding about going home this year.
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
- Blood on the street / Foreboding god complex / She never knew she was next
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present participle and gerund of forebode
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at foreboding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at foreboding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at foreboding
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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