| Main Entry: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
Synonyms: |
anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, bad vibes, chill, dread, fear, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prophecy, sinking feeling, vibes, warning, wind change |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
Antonyms: |
fortune, good omen, luck, providence |
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, canniness, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, clairvoyance, discernment, discreetness, discretion, economy, far-sightedness, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, long-sightedness, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prenotion, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity |
Antonyms: |
hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | misgiving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty |
Synonyms: |
anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, distrust, doubt, fear, foreboding, hesitation, mistrust, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, qualm, reservation, scruple, suspicion, unbelief, unease, worry |
Antonyms: |
certainty, confidence, doubtlessness, sureness, trust |
| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, apprehensiveness, discomposure, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, prenotion, presage, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
| Concept: | Foresight. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence (preparation)., forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone conclusion (prejudgment); prudence (caution)., foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment; second sight; sagacity (intelligence); antepast, prelibation, prophasis., prospect (expectation); foretaste; prospectus (plan).
-verbs
foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future., see one's way; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows, see how the cat jumps., anticipate; expect; be beforehand (early); predict; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout (vigilance); forewarn.
-adjectives
foreseeing; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious (intelligent); weatherwise; provident (prepared); prospective.
-adverbs
against the time when.
-phrases
cernit omnia Deus vindex; mihi cura futuri.
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