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Foreboding vs Forcast - What's the difference?

foreboding | forcast |

As nouns the difference between foreboding and forcast

is that foreboding is a sense of evil to come while forcast is .

As verbs the difference between foreboding and forcast

is that foreboding is while forcast is (obsolete) to cast away; reject.

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)
  • forcast

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare (l).

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To cast away; reject.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) forcast, variant of forecast.

    Noun

    (head)