Foreboding
noun
A feeling that something bad is going to happen.
The dark clouds on the horizon filled him with a sense of foreboding.
Often appears as...
- sense of foreboding
- deep foreboding
adjective
Warning or suggesting that something bad will happen.
There was a foreboding atmosphere in the house.
Often appears as...
- foreboding clouds
- foreboding silence
noun
A feeling that something bad is going to happen.
The dark clouds on the horizon filled him with a sense of foreboding.
Often appears as...
- sense of foreboding
- deep foreboding
adjective
Warning or suggesting that something bad will happen.
There was a foreboding atmosphere in the house.
Often appears as...
- foreboding clouds
- foreboding silence
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative connotation
Foreboding always suggests a negative outcome, never a positive one.
The soldiers had a foreboding of defeat before the battle began.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity varies
The intensity of a foreboding can range from a vague feeling to a strong conviction.
She felt a slight foreboding when she saw the abandoned car.
Pro Tip 3/3Often vague
A foreboding doesn't always specify what the bad event will be, just that danger looms.
As the door creaked open, an unexplained foreboding chilled the room.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative connotation
Foreboding always suggests a negative outcome, never a positive one.
The soldiers had a foreboding of defeat before the battle began.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity varies
The intensity of a foreboding can range from a vague feeling to a strong conviction.
She felt a slight foreboding when she saw the abandoned car.
Pro Tip 3/3Often vague
A foreboding doesn't always specify what the bad event will be, just that danger looms.
As the door creaked open, an unexplained foreboding chilled the room.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative connotation
Foreboding always suggests a negative outcome, never a positive one.
The soldiers had a foreboding of defeat before the battle began.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity varies
The intensity of a foreboding can range from a vague feeling to a strong conviction.
She felt a slight foreboding when she saw the abandoned car.
Pro Tip 3/3Often vague
A foreboding doesn't always specify what the bad event will be, just that danger looms.
As the door creaked open, an unexplained foreboding chilled the room.
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Video examples
Creativity is a remix PIPE...
had been evolving for decades. That's multi-touch, controlling a device by touching its display. Here is Steve Jobs introducing multi-touch and making a rather foreboding joke. Steve And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch.
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A Cameraman's Wild...
so we got a heavy thimble berry thicket and then we get heavy alder cover so if you're looking at this from the beach it looks pretty foreboding and then when you step inside the canopy you see a whole different world one of the reasons
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The myth of Pandora’s...
Filled with terror, Pandora clawed desperately at the air to direct them back into their prison. But the creatures surged out in a gruesome cloud. She felt a wave of foreboding as they billowed away. Zeus had used the box as a vessel
Video examples
Creativity is a remix PIPE...
had been evolving for decades. That's multi-touch, controlling a device by touching its display. Here is Steve Jobs introducing multi-touch and making a rather foreboding joke. Steve And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch.
Video examples
A Cameraman's Wild...
so we got a heavy thimble berry thicket and then we get heavy alder cover so if you're looking at this from the beach it looks pretty foreboding and then when you step inside the canopy you see a whole different world one of the reasons
Video examples
The myth of Pandora’s...
Filled with terror, Pandora clawed desperately at the air to direct them back into their prison. But the creatures surged out in a gruesome cloud. She felt a wave of foreboding as they billowed away. Zeus had used the box as a vessel
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Quote examples
Jamie Johnson
American Director
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.
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Ruben Fleischer
American Director
The mass of Venom. I mean, he's like a big, foreboding, physical presence. Actually, let me correct myself - the eyes, the tongue, the mouth, those are his most distinguishing traits, and so making those look as photoreal and true to the comics as we possibly could was super important to me.
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Nathaniel Philbrick
American Author
The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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Buzz Aldrin
American Astronaut
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
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Daniel Ellsberg
American Celebrity
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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Max Boot
American Author
Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.
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David Bowie
English Musician
When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
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David Horsey
American Cartoonist
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
American Author
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
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Jamie Johnson
American Director
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.
Quote examples
Ruben Fleischer
American Director
The mass of Venom. I mean, he's like a big, foreboding, physical presence. Actually, let me correct myself - the eyes, the tongue, the mouth, those are his most distinguishing traits, and so making those look as photoreal and true to the comics as we possibly could was super important to me.
Quote examples
Nathaniel Philbrick
American Author
The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
Quote examples
Buzz Aldrin
American Astronaut
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
Quote examples
Daniel Ellsberg
American Celebrity
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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Max Boot
American Author
Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.
Quote examples
David Bowie
English Musician
When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
Quote examples
David Horsey
American Cartoonist
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
American Author
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
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