Synonyms of the word

foreboding

• n. A sense of evil to come.
• n. An evil omen.
• adj. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
• v. present participle of forebode.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

apprehensiveness

• n. the state of being apprehensive.

boding

• n. An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.
• adj. Portending, ominous.
• v. present participle of bode.

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

fateful

• adj. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
• adj. Determined in advance by fate, fated.

omen

• n. Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future;…
• n. prophetic significance.
• v. To be an omen of.
• v. To divine or predict from omens.

portent

• n. Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
• n. A portending; significance.
• n. Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy.

portentous

• adj. Of momentous or ominous significance.
• adj. Ominously prophetic.
• adj. Puffed up with vanity.

premonition

• n. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
• n. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

presage

• n. A warning of a future event; an omen.
• n. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
• v. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
• v. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
• v. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

presentiment

• n. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

prodigy

• n. (now rare) An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
• n. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
• n. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
• n. A wonderful example of something.
• n. An extremely talented person, especially a child.

prognostic

• adj. Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.
• n. (rare, medicine) prognosis.
• n. A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
• n. A prediction of the future.
• n. One who predicts the future.

prognostication

• n. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.

prophetic

• adj. of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
• adj. predicted, as by a prophecy.

prophetical

• adj. prophetic.