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

1. Ominously prophetic
   "The foreboding sky warned of an approaching storm";
   - fateful, portentous

1. Make a prediction about; tell in advance
   "The dark clouds foreboded a storm";
   - 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 [archaic], prognostic, prognostication, venture

Encyclopedia: Foreboding