Boding (Noun)
Meaning
A feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case".
Classification
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
Examples
- The dark and ominous clouds seemed to fill her with a sense of boding that something terrible was about to happen.
- As the clock struck midnight, a feeling of boding settled over the old mansion, as if it too felt the weight of its dark history.
- The eerie silence that followed the argument was filled with a sense of boding, as if the very air was heavy with unspoken threats.
- The lawyer's instincts told him that the judge's demeanor was a boding sign that the case was not going in their favor.
- The villagers avoided the old ruin, whispering stories of a boding presence that lingered within its crumbling walls.