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adj
foreboding, ominous, portending.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, nefastous, omenic, ominous, brooding, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen
Antonyms: none provided
noun
gerund of bode: a prediction of disaster; an omen, a portent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of bode
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
a feeling of evil to come
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
Narrower terms: shadow, presage
History
Etymology tree English bode Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English boding From bode + -ing.
