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Foreboding vs Signifying - What's the difference?

foreboding | signifying | Related terms |

Foreboding is a related term of signifying.


As verbs the difference between foreboding and signifying

is that foreboding is while signifying is .

As a noun foreboding

is a sense of evil to come.

As an adjective foreboding

is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

foreboding

English

Alternative forms

* forboding (much less commonly used)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sense of evil to come.
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
    • A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
  • An evil omen.

    • Synonyms

    * augury

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • signifying

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * (c. 1603), Act V, Scene V:
    • Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    and then is heard no more: it is a tale
    told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    signifying nothing.