[U,C] a strong feeling that sth unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen:
She had a sense of foreboding that the news would be bad. * The letter filled him with foreboding. * He knew from her face that his forebodings had been justified.
foreboding adjective:
a foreboding feeling that something was wrong
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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