What part of speech is foreboding?

Foreboding can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. foreboding is a verb, gerund of forebode (infinitive).
  • 2. foreboding is a noun, singular of forebodings.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does foreboding mean?

Definitions

Adjective

foreboding - Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

Verb

forebode - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"

Noun

foreboding - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
foreboding - an unfavorable omen

Examples of foreboding

#   Sentence  
1. noun A steadily escalating sense of foreboding.
2. noun Mary walked along the river with a foreboding that this was the last time she would walk anywhere as a free woman.
3. noun Despite her foreboding, Mary entered the cellar.
4. noun I have a foreboding that something dangerous lies in store for us in that cave.
5. noun The cries of wolves in the distance gave Mary a sense of foreboding.
6. noun After watching that film he was filled with a sense of foreboding.
7. noun The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers, where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
8. noun With some foreboding, we entered the petrified forest.
9. verb Mary shrugged the sense of foreboding away.
Sentence  
noun
A steadily escalating sense of foreboding.
Mary walked along the river with a foreboding that this was the last time she would walk anywhere as a free woman.
Despite her foreboding, Mary entered the cellar.
I have a foreboding that something dangerous lies in store for us in that cave.
The cries of wolves in the distance gave Mary a sense of foreboding.
After watching that film he was filled with a sense of foreboding.
The king being angry with his servants, commanded me and the chief baker to be cast into the prison of the captain of the soldiers, where in one night both of us dreamed a dream foreboding things to come.
With some foreboding, we entered the petrified forest.
verb
Mary shrugged the sense of foreboding away.

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