foreboded
Signaled coming trouble
Foreboded is the past tense of forebode, meaning to predict or portend something ominous.
The word suggests dark premonition rather than neutral forecasting: The strange silence foreboded disaster.
Someone who foreboded trouble sensed it coming before evidence appeared.
Sign of future calamity
- signMark conveying information
- warningAlert about danger
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- presageIndicate beforehand
harbinger · ill omen · bad sign · dark cloud · prophecy · vision · dream · apparition
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
inkling · suspicion · instinct · foreknowledge · sense · foresight · awareness · nagging feeling
Predicted through divine insight
- predictedDeclared in advance
- foresawPerceived before occurrence
- anticipatedExpected in advance
- forewarnedNotified of coming trouble
presaged · augured · portended · prognosticated · heralded · foreshadowed · signaled · indicated
Nervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- fearEmotional response to threat
alarm · chill · shudder · sinking feeling · dread · disquiet · misgiving · cold sweat
portent
Sign of future calamity
presage · harbinger · ill omen · bad sign · dark cloud · prophecy · vision · dream · apparition · curse
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
sixth sense · inkling · suspicion · instinct · foreknowledge · sense · foresight · awareness · nagging feeling · portent
prophesied
Predicted through divine insight
- predictedDeclared in advance
- foresawPerceived before occurrence
- anticipatedExpected in advance
forewarned · presaged · augured · portended · prognosticated · heralded · foreshadowed · signaled · indicated
apprehension
Nervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
fear · alarm · chill · shudder · sinking feeling · dread · disquiet · misgiving · cold sweat · pit in stomach
- foreboding weatherSigns of approaching storms