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synonyms for boding

  • auspice
  • forerunner
  • foretoken
  • forewarning
  • harbinger
  • herald
  • portent
  • precursor
  • presage
  • prognostication
  • promise
  • prophecy
  • sign
  • token
  • warning
See also synonyms for: bodings
  • inkling
  • instinct
  • intuition
  • premonition
  • anticipation
  • apprehension
  • augury
  • clue
  • expectation
  • foreboding
  • forecast
  • foreknowledge
  • forewarning
  • glimmer
  • hint
  • impression
  • misgiving
  • notion
  • portent
  • precognition
  • presage
  • prescience
  • presentiment
  • qualm
  • suspicion
  • thought
  • auguration
  • feeling in one's bones
  • forewisdom
  • funny feeling
  • omination
  • preapprehension
  • preconceived notion
  • prenotation
  • prenotice
  • presagement
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How to use boding in a sentence

The arrow at last struck its mark, and my boding heart then whispered how this would end.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. 4, NO 3, SEPTEMBER 1863VARIOUS
That remark stood now explained, and in a very grim and boding sense did the explanation strike them.
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORD
Each leaf that moves doth thrill this wretched frame With boding and with dread.
THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN: CHRYSANTHUS AND DARIAPEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
The doctor, peering after him with strange, sad eyes, shook a boding head.
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND
Tell me that we shall be happy yet; for oh, I have a boding heart this day!
BY ORDER OF THE COMPANYMARY JOHNSTON
Mr. Douglas shook hands with him kindly, but from under his iron-gray, bushy brows shot an ill-boding look.
DAME CAREHERMANN SUDERMANN
Colonel Ward stared after the pudgy figure as long as it remained in sight, muttering his boding thoughts.
THE SKIPPER AND THE SKIPPEDHOLMAN DAY
Houlagou did not speak for a little, and into his set face seemed to creep an ill-boding shadow of a smile.
THE PATH OF THE KINGJOHN BUCHAN
Thou forsooth art boding against Jupiter the things thou wishest.
PROMETHEUS BOUND AND SEVEN AGAINST THEBESAESCHYLUS
He would not be comforted, and all the hearts of that great company were filled with fearful, boding dread for Roland.
YOUNG FOLKS TREASURY, VOLUME 2 (OF 12)VARIOUS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO BODING

  • auspice
  • boding
  • forerunner
  • foretoken
  • forewarning
  • harbinger
  • herald
  • portent
  • precursor
  • presage
  • prognostication
  • promise
  • prophecy
  • sign
  • token
  • warning
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.