foreboding

Preposition: of

evil: Yet Dawn is unable to quell her forebodings of evil.

Converse of object

• have: At the end of the novel, Danny has a foreboding about the forthcoming era, marked by the arrival of the Red Army.
• feel: I must confess that I did not feel the slightest foreboding.

Adjective modifier

• gloomy: It powerfully suggests the coming Passion, being full of dark and gloomy foreboding.
• dark: Need to create a sense of dark foreboding at what might envelope the lead character, use a dream sequence.
• grim: Jesus goes with grim foreboding, expecting to suffer.
• such: Is this day of high and solemn gratulation, to be turned to such forebodings as these?
• more: It's a downbeat experience, and the presence of those nets with the trapped and decaying fish makes it all the more foreboding.
• sad: The light heart which nature had given me became heavy with sad forebodings.

Modifies a noun

• sense: The camera focuses on the star, giving a foreboding sense of the horror to come.
• place: The manor was a grim, black, foreboding place.
• feeling: Suddenly, he was filled with a foreboding feeling.
• presence: The foreboding presence of the Ark building prompts thoughts of spooky surveillance, of a world where function has defeated form.
• wood: Explore five diverse environments including icy and snowy regions, mountains with breathtaking vistas, deep and foreboding woods, and rain-spattered cliffs.
• atmosphere: This is in contrast to the harsh, barbaric sections of his music, which evoke a primal and foreboding atmosphere.

Modifying Another Word

rather: The MRI and CT scanners are large and rather foreboding - they can also make a rather threatening noise when they are working.