Foreboding vs Alarming - What's the difference?
foreboding | alarming | Related terms |
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Foreboding is a related term of alarming.
As adjectives the difference between foreboding and alarming
is that foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty while alarming is causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.As verbs the difference between foreboding and alarming
is that foreboding is while alarming is .As a noun foreboding
is a sense of evil to come.foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.