Emotions
Synonyms for foreboding
The synonym for foreboding recorded in this bank is premonition, in the sense "a feeling of evil to come". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for foreboding
- premonitionnoun, in the sense "a feeling of evil to come"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and foreboding carries one sense so far.
a feeling of evil to come
A steadily escalating sense of foreboding.
The true synonym
premonition
Same sentence, swapped: A steadily escalating sense of premonition.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot foreboding is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- gloom
- suspense
- speculation
Where foreboding turns up in the game
foreboding is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where foreboding is the trap
- dreadadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is terrible, in the sense "causing fear or dread or terror", with foreboding sitting one tile away.
Play foreboding
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so foreboding reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. foreboding carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.