forebodings

Sense of dread

Forebodings are feelings that something bad is about to happen—a sense of impending misfortune or disaster.

The word carries a darker weight than mere worry or anxiety, suggesting an almost prophetic dread: She couldn't shake her forebodings about the journey.

Often appears with adjectives like dark, grim, or ominous.

premonition

omen

Prophetic indicator

portentSign of future calamity
harbingerOne who foreshadows
presageIndicate beforehand

augury · warning · sign · prophecy · vision · foreshadowing · presentiment · hunch · intuition · inkling

dread

apprehension

Nervous anticipation of trouble

trepidationFearful uncertainty
uneaseMild persistent worry
anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress

misgiving · worry · disquiet · dread · fear · alarm · distress · dismay · angst · gloom

ominous

portentous

Ominously significant

sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
menacingConveying threat or danger
threateningExpressing intent to harm

dire · grim · baleful · inauspicious · unpropitious · dark · eerie · chilling · fateful · brooding

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