boding
foreboding, ominous, portending.
Adjective
- foreboding, ominous, portending.
- [E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […] - 1820 March 5,...
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
Origin
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.
Forms
Noun
- gerund of bode: a prediction of disaster; an omen, a portent.
Forms
Verb
- present participle and gerund of bode