Foreboding vs Inauspicious - What's the difference?
foreboding | inauspicious | 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.
Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
* 1595 : And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. — .
* Inauspicious love. — .
* 1788 : It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer. — .
Foreboding is a related term of inauspicious.
As adjectives the difference between foreboding and inauspicious
is that foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty while inauspicious is not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.As a noun foreboding
is a sense of evil to come.As a verb foreboding
is .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.