813 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈɔːbˈə͡ʊdɪŋ], [ fˈɔːbˈə‍ʊdɪŋ], [ f_ˈɔː_b_ˈəʊ_d_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for fore-boding:

• apprehensive (adjective)
• baleful (adjective)
• black (adjective)
• dark (adjective)
• disturbing (adjective)
• forbidding (adjective)
• grim (adjective)
• ill (adjective)
• inauspicious (adjective)
• oracular (adjective)
• perturbing (adjective)
• pessimistic (adjective)
• predictive (adjective)
• sinister (adjective)
• unhospitable (adjective)
• anticipation (noun)
• anxiety (noun)
• apprehension (noun)
• care (noun)
• disquiet (noun)
• fear (noun)
• foreboding (noun)
• gloom (noun)
• hunch (noun)
• magic (noun)
• misgiving (noun)
• mistrust (noun)
• mournfulness (noun)
• omen (noun)
• portent (noun)
• prefigurement (noun)
• premonition (noun)
• presentiment (noun)
• prestidigitation (noun)
• prognostic (noun)
• qualm (noun)
• sign (noun)
• signification (noun)
• thaumaturgy (noun)
• threat (noun)
• thundercloud (noun)
• unease (noun)
• announce (verb)
• betoken (verb)
• bode (verb)
• divine (verb)
• forebode (verb)
• foresee (verb)
• foreshadow (verb)
• foretell (verb)
• impend (verb)
• portend (verb)
• predict (verb)
• presage (verb)
• promise (verb)
• threaten (verb)

Synonyms for Fore-boding:

• adj.

  • apprehensive (adjective)
  • jittery,
  • biting nails,
  • lily-livered,
  • in a dither,
  • alarmed,
  • stiff,
  • afraid,
  • jumpy,
  • feel in bones,
  • troubled,
  • worried sick,
  • disquieted,
  • running scared,
  • uptight,
  • hung up,
  • shaky,
  • get vibes,
  • weak,
  • uneasy,
  • have a hunch,
  • concerned,
  • scaredy-cat,
  • uncertain,
  • have funny feeling,
  • in a sweat,
  • worried,
  • have stage fright,
  • in a cold sweat,
  • suspicious,
  • have cold feet,
  • jellyfish,
  • mistrustful,
  • frozen,
  • doubtful.
  • baleful (adjective)
  • calamitous,
  • malevolent,
  • ruinous,
  • sinister,
  • venomous,
  • ominous,
  • vindictive,
  • pernicious,
  • malignant,
  • injurious,
  • noxious,
  • threatening,
  • woeful,
  • evil,
  • harmful,
  • dire,
  • deadly,
  • hurtful.
  • black (adjective)
  • sad,
  • atrocious,
  • depressing,
  • dispiriting,
  • sombre,
  • funereal,
  • mournful,
  • horrible,
  • dismal,
  • doleful,
  • oppressive,
  • lugubrious,
  • bleak,
  • distressing,
  • dreary,
  • depressive,
  • gloomy.
  • dark (adjective)
  • drab,
  • morbid,
  • morose,
  • cheerless,
  • joyless,
  • somber,
  • unpropitious.
  • disturbing (adjective)
  • difficult,
  • troublesome,
  • aggravating,
  • pessimistic,
  • Irksome,
  • vexing,
  • painful,
  • worrisome,
  • trying,
  • Discommoding,
  • perturbing,
  • dismaying,
  • unsettling,
  • alarming,
  • perplexing,
  • agitating,
  • creepy,
  • impeding,
  • prophetic,
  • hard,
  • consequential,
  • upsetting,
  • toilsome,
  • disconcerting,
  • burdensome,
  • troubling,
  • startling,
  • worrying,
  • Discomposing,
  • embarrassing,
  • provoking,
  • Discomforting,
  • annoying,
  • laborious,
  • onerous,
  • wearisome,
  • tiresome,
  • bothersome,
  • irritating,
  • inconvenient,
  • Harassing.
  • forbidding (adjective)
  • abhorrent,
  • menacing,
  • repulsive,
  • tough,
  • unapproachable,
  • offensive,
  • unfriendly,
  • repellent,
  • odious,
  • hostile,
  • off-putting,
  • ugly,
  • unpleasant,
  • frightening,
  • glowering,
  • dour,
  • disagreeable,
  • grim.
  • grim (adjective)
  • ferocious,
  • horrid,
  • relentless,
  • formidable,
  • ghastly,
  • fierce,
  • splenetic,
  • implacable,
  • scowling,
  • hideous,
  • sour,
  • stern,
  • shocking,
  • cruel,
  • sullen,
  • sulky,
  • cantankerous,
  • austere,
  • ruthless,
  • terrible,
  • unrelenting,
  • resolute,
  • stubborn,
  • surly,
  • crusty,
  • dogged,
  • forbidding,
  • glum,
  • merciless,
  • churlish,
  • truculent,
  • severe,
  • grisly,
  • unyielding,
  • grumpy,
  • crabbed,
  • barbarous,
  • frightful,
  • harsh,
  • inexorable,
  • intractable,
  • grouchy,
  • gruesome.
  • ill (adjective)
  • detrimental,
  • unkind,
  • unpromising,
  • impertinent,
  • nocent,
  • acrimonious,
  • malicious,
  • unwholesome,
  • ill-mannered,
  • iniquitous,
  • unhealthy,
  • disrespectful,
  • cross,
  • inimical,
  • disturbing,
  • wicked,
  • vile,
  • unfavorable,
  • wrong,
  • hateful,
  • damaging,
  • adverse,
  • Nocuous,
  • foul,
  • unfortunate,
  • inauspicious,
  • unlucky,
  • ungracious,
  • antagonistic,
  • deleterious.
  • inauspicious (adjective)
  • baneful,
  • untoward,
  • black,
  • bad,
  • impending,
  • fateful,
  • Ill-boding,
  • baleful,
  • inopportune,
  • discouraging,
  • untimely,
  • ill-omened.
  • oracular (adjective)
  • delphian,
  • positive,
  • significant,
  • foretelling,
  • interpretive,
  • dogmatic,
  • Discovering,
  • prescient,
  • venerable,
  • portentous,
  • Auguring,
  • Divining,
  • Anticipating,
  • cabalistic,
  • Predicting,
  • Portending,
  • arcane,
  • ambiguous,
  • vatic,
  • Proclaiming,
  • Prophesying,
  • vague,
  • Divulging,
  • Presaging,
  • clairvoyant,
  • cryptic,
  • forecasting,
  • mantic,
  • sibylline,
  • auspicious,
  • Prognosticating,
  • wise,
  • mysterious,
  • fatidic,
  • occult,
  • authoritative,
  • apocalyptic,
  • imperious,
  • peremptory,
  • sage,
  • secret,
  • mystical,
  • obscure.
  • perturbing (adjective)
  • troublous,
  • intrusive,
  • distressful,
  • disruptive.
  • pessimistic (adjective)
  • despairing,
  • dejected,
  • discouraged,
  • misanthropic,
  • depressed,
  • resigned,
  • fatalistic,
  • cynical,
  • downhearted,
  • distrustful,
  • dark,
  • despondent,
  • hopeless,
  • melancholy.
  • predictive (adjective)
  • Surmising,
  • Conjecturing,
  • prognosticative,
  • guessing.
  • sinister (adjective)
  • dishonest,
  • malign,
  • disastrous,
  • disquieting,
  • Doomful,
  • perverse,
  • malefic,
  • lowering,
  • poisonous,
  • corrupt,
  • mischievous,
  • obnoxious,
  • blackhearted.
  • unhospitable (adjective)
  • inhospitable,
  • uninviting.

• n.

  • anticipation (noun)
  • foresight,
  • intuition,
  • foreboding,
  • foretaste,
  • foreseeing,
  • prevision,
  • inkling,
  • forethought,
  • realization,
  • awareness,
  • preconception,
  • prescience,
  • prior knowledge.
  • anxiety (noun)
  • doubt,
  • disquietude,
  • shivers,
  • shakes,
  • watchfulness,
  • trouble,
  • nail-biting,
  • flap,
  • restlessness,
  • nervousness,
  • misery,
  • misgiving,
  • panic,
  • care,
  • jumps,
  • botheration,
  • disquiet,
  • sweat,
  • cold sweat,
  • suffering,
  • suspense,
  • unease,
  • Butterflies,
  • Needles,
  • pins and needles,
  • worriment,
  • willies,
  • fuss,
  • angst,
  • drag,
  • heebie-jeebies,
  • uneasiness,
  • uncertainty,
  • jitters,
  • distress,
  • solicitude,
  • ants in pants,
  • fidgets,
  • all-overs,
  • downer,
  • fretfulness,
  • goose bumps,
  • creeps,
  • mistrust,
  • concern.
  • apprehension (noun)
  • worry,
  • trepidation,
  • suspicion,
  • alarm.
  • care (noun)
  • charge,
  • perplexity,
  • discomposure,
  • oppression,
  • aggravation,
  • encumbrance,
  • affliction,
  • consternation,
  • pressure,
  • handicap,
  • woe,
  • annoyance,
  • vexation,
  • impediment,
  • nuisance,
  • disturbance,
  • responsibility,
  • incubus,
  • hindrance,
  • sorrow,
  • anguish,
  • onus,
  • hardship,
  • strain,
  • unhappiness,
  • load,
  • stress,
  • tribulation,
  • exasperation,
  • stew,
  • chagrin,
  • dismay,
  • burden,
  • bother.
  • disquiet (noun)
  • ferment,
  • inquietude,
  • restiveness,
  • unrest,
  • storm,
  • turmoil,
  • ailment,
  • concernment.
  • fear (noun)
  • cold feet,
  • qualm,
  • awe,
  • chickenheartedness,
  • fright,
  • horror,
  • timidity,
  • tremor,
  • phobia,
  • trembling,
  • Recreancy,
  • revulsion,
  • scare,
  • terror,
  • reverence,
  • agitation,
  • nightmare,
  • aversion,
  • abhorrence,
  • funk,
  • faintheartedness,
  • cowardice,
  • despair.
  • foreboding (noun)
  • dread,
  • handwriting on the wall,
  • premonition,
  • Prenotion,
  • prediction,
  • anxiety,
  • prophecy,
  • fear,
  • augury,
  • prognostic,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • presage,
  • wind change,
  • funny feeling,
  • sinking feeling,
  • vibes,
  • warning,
  • portent,
  • foreshadowing,
  • foretoken,
  • bad vibes,
  • forewarning,
  • presentiment,
  • chill,
  • apprehension.
  • gloom (noun)
  • dejection,
  • mourning,
  • pessimism,
  • dolor,
  • heaviness,
  • bitterness,
  • grief,
  • sadness,
  • doldrums,
  • dumps,
  • morbidity,
  • desolation,
  • blues,
  • dullness,
  • despondency,
  • heavy-heartedness,
  • weariness,
  • low spirits,
  • dismals,
  • discouragement,
  • catatonia,
  • blue devils,
  • saturninity,
  • disconsolateness,
  • malaise,
  • downheartedness,
  • pensiveness,
  • mopes,
  • blue funk,
  • cheerlessness.
  • hunch (noun)
  • foreknowledge,
  • Omination,
  • clue,
  • instinct,
  • Presagement,
  • forewisdom,
  • preconceived notion,
  • hint,
  • Preapprehension,
  • anticipation,
  • Auguration,
  • prenotation,
  • precognition,
  • notion,
  • thought,
  • glimmer,
  • feeling in one's bones,
  • boding,
  • prenotice,
  • expectation,
  • impression.
  • magic (noun)
  • diabolism,
  • taboo,
  • necromancy,
  • astrology,
  • soothsaying,
  • exorcism,
  • horoscopy,
  • voodoo,
  • Thaumaturgy,
  • sleight of hand,
  • divination,
  • bewitchment,
  • wizardry,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • trickery,
  • conjuring,
  • sorcery,
  • fascination,
  • alchemy,
  • superstition,
  • legerdemain,
  • witchcraft,
  • power,
  • allurement,
  • fortune-telling,
  • devilry,
  • magnetism,
  • illusion,
  • prestidigitation,
  • rune,
  • Sortilege,
  • spell,
  • of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra,
  • voodooism,
  • enchantment,
  • black art,
  • incantation,
  • conjury,
  • Occultism.
  • misgiving (noun)
  • reservation,
  • unbelief,
  • scruple,
  • hesitation,
  • distrust.
  • mistrust (noun)
  • dubiety,
  • skepticism,
  • wariness,
  • chariness,
  • incertitude,
  • wonder,
  • Dubiosity.
  • mournfulness (noun)
  • mope,
  • depression,
  • dolefulness,
  • dysphoria,
  • despondence,
  • glumness.
  • omen (noun)
  • harbinger,
  • prognostication,
  • straw,
  • auspice,
  • indication,
  • Bodement,
  • writing on the wall.
  • portent (noun)
  • threat,
  • sign,
  • hunch,
  • caution.
  • prefigurement (noun)
  • forerunner,
  • writing.
  • premonition (noun)
  • idea,
  • winds,
  • handwriting on wall,
  • feeling,
  • vibrations,
  • winds of change,
  • feeling in bones.
  • presentiment (noun)
  • perturbation.
  • prestidigitation (noun)
  • abracadabra,
  • conjuration.
  • prognostic (noun)
  • Prefigurement.
  • qualm (noun)
  • demur,
  • pang,
  • conscience,
  • indecision,
  • twinge,
  • remonstrance,
  • objection,
  • insecurity,
  • remorse,
  • compunction,
  • regret,
  • reluctance,
  • Misdoubt.
  • sign (noun)
  • bell,
  • high sign,
  • note,
  • flash,
  • light,
  • wink,
  • gesture,
  • whistle,
  • vestige,
  • flag,
  • manifestation,
  • trace,
  • mark,
  • beacon,
  • proof,
  • symptom,
  • suggestion,
  • signal,
  • herald,
  • wave,
  • badge,
  • token,
  • giveaway,
  • symbol,
  • precursor,
  • nod,
  • assurance.
  • signification (noun)
  • indicator,
  • witness,
  • stamp,
  • index,
  • evidence.
  • thaumaturgy (noun)
  • witchery,
  • witching,
  • theurgy.
  • threat (noun)
  • commination,
  • risk,
  • fix,
  • blackmail,
  • intimidation,
  • hazard,
  • thunder,
  • bluff,
  • menace,
  • fulmination,
  • peril,
  • impendence.
  • thundercloud (noun)
  • storm clouds,
  • stormy weather.
  • unease (noun)
  • anxiousness.

• v.

  • announce (verb)
  • predict,
  • Forerun,
  • signify,
  • foreshow,
  • forebode.
  • betoken (verb)
  • symbolize,
  • assert,
  • express,
  • import,
  • betide,
  • show.
  • bode (verb)
  • offer,
  • stop,
  • message.
  • divine (verb)
  • conjecture,
  • foreknow,
  • previse,
  • see,
  • take a shot,
  • go out on a limb,
  • take a stab,
  • intuit,
  • understand,
  • see in the cards,
  • visualize,
  • surmise,
  • apprehend,
  • discern,
  • perceive,
  • Forefeel,
  • suppose,
  • deduce,
  • suspect,
  • guess,
  • infer,
  • anticipate.
  • forebode (verb)
  • divine,
  • foretell,
  • forecast,
  • portend,
  • indicate,
  • foresee,
  • promise,
  • augur,
  • foreshadow,
  • prognosticate,
  • betoken,
  • Forewarn,
  • Premonish,
  • omen,
  • bode.
  • foresee (verb)
  • expect,
  • espy,
  • envisage,
  • dope out,
  • psych out,
  • prophesy,
  • crystal ball it,
  • see it coming,
  • call the turn,
  • preknow.
  • foreshadow (verb)
  • imply,
  • shadow,
  • suggest,
  • adumbrate,
  • prefigure,
  • telegraph,
  • be in the wind.
  • foretell (verb)
  • read,
  • divulge,
  • PSYCH,
  • dope,
  • call it,
  • Soothsay,
  • call the shot,
  • declare,
  • proclaim,
  • reveal,
  • disclose,
  • auspicate,
  • figure out,
  • call,
  • figure,
  • see something coming,
  • tell,
  • announce,
  • make book.
  • impend (verb)
  • brew,
  • lower.
  • portend (verb)
  • threaten,
  • be in the cards,
  • see coming,
  • bespeak,
  • point to,
  • crystal-ball,
  • warn of.
  • predict (verb)
  • judge,
  • envision,
  • size up,
  • hazard a guess,
  • gather,
  • see handwriting on wall,
  • Forespeak,
  • conclude,
  • vaticinate,
  • think,
  • croak,
  • presume,
  • be afraid,
  • crystal-ball divine.
  • presage (verb)
  • preindicate,
  • warn,
  • sense,
  • feel.
  • promise (verb)
  • like,
  • encourage,
  • denote,
  • hold out hope,
  • give hope,
  • look,
  • lead to expect,
  • show signs of,
  • hold probability,
  • seem likely.
  • threaten (verb)
  • comminate,
  • approach,
  • be imminent,
  • shake fist at,
  • enforce,
  • look daggers,
  • push around,
  • snarl,
  • overhang,
  • be gathering,
  • be in the offing,
  • admonish,
  • intimidate,
  • fulminate,
  • cow,
  • be dangerous,
  • bully,
  • be on the horizon,
  • loom,
  • flex muscles,
  • spook,
  • growl,
  • torment,
  • be in the air,
  • come on,
  • put at risk,
  • abuse,
  • hang over,
  • bluster,
  • terrorize,
  • put in jeopardy,
  • advance,
  • scowl,
  • frighten,
  • browbeat,
  • imperil,
  • jeopardize,
  • walk heavy,
  • impend,
  • brewing,
  • pressurize,
  • make threat.