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      • a strong feeling that something 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.
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  2. FOREBODING definition: 1. a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon: 2. a feeling that something very bad…. Learn more.

  3. Foreboding definition: a prediction; portent.. See examples of FOREBODING used in a sentence.

  4. When you get a foreboding, you get a sense that something bad is going to happen. A foreboding is a foretelling, a sign or a glimpse, that "something wicked this way comes" — or might come. If something doesn’t "bode" well, it means that the future doesn't look good.

  5. The meaning of FOREBODING is the act of one who forebodes; also : an omen, prediction, or presentiment especially of coming evil : portent. How to use foreboding in a sentence.

  6. noun. /fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ/ /fɔːrˈbəʊdɪŋ/ [uncountable, countable] a strong feeling that something 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. Extra Examples. Topics Danger c2.

  7. FOREBODING meaning: 1. a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon: 2. a feeling that something very bad…. Learn more.

  8. If you describe something as foreboding, you mean that it makes you feel that something terrible is going to happen. Prisons like Strangeways, built more than 100 years ago, were intended to look grim and foreboding places.

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