Noun: boding bow-ding
- A feeling of evil to come
"A sense of boding filled the air as storm clouds gathered";
- foreboding, premonition, presentiment
- Be a sign of something to come, esp. something important or bad
"These signs bode bad news";
- portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken [archaic], foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict, foretoken
Derived forms: bodings
Type of: apprehension, apprehensiveness, bespeak, betoken [archaic], dread, indicate, misgiving, point, signal
Encyclopedia: Bode, Jörg