Warning vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
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The action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone.
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, title= Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.
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, title= Used to warn of danger in signs and notices.
A sense of evil to come.
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An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Warning is a related term of foreboding.
As verbs the difference between warning and foreboding
is that warning is while foreboding is .As nouns the difference between warning and foreboding
is that warning is the action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.As an interjection warning
is used to warn of danger in signs and notices.As an adjective foreboding is
of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.warning
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.}}
Derived terms
* warning signInterjection
warning!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.