foreboding

1. 1.

   ominously prophetic

   Synonymsfatefulportentous

   Similarprophetic

Other forms of foreboding

plural

forebodings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foreboding

What does foreboding mean?

foreboding means "a feeling of evil to come". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foreboding?

foreboding has 3 syllables: fore-bo-ding. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈboʊdɪŋ/.

What is another word for foreboding?

Close synonyms include premonition, presentiment, boding, fateful, portentous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foreboding a common word?

foreboding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.