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Other ways to say "I have a bad hunch"

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00:00 Other Ways To Say &Quot;I Have A Bad Hunch&Quot;
00:13 Answer 1 Score 10
00:32 Accepted Answer Score 17
01:06 Answer 3 Score 8
01:45 Answer 4 Score 15
01:53 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 17


foreĀ·bodĀ·ing:

noun - fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen:

with a sense of foreboding she read the note

adjective - implying or seeming to imply that something bad is going to happen:

when the doctor spoke, his voice was dark and foreboding

Synonyms: apprehension, anxiety, trepidation, disquiet, unease, uneasiness, misgiving, worry, fear, fearfulness, dread




ANSWER 2

Score 15


I've got a baaad feeling about this.

(Note that this does have a certain pop-culture reference...)




ANSWER 3

Score 10


Consider premonition

an intuition of a future, usually unwelcome, occurrence; foreboding

Also

  • forboding
  • dread
  • apprehension
  • presage
  • shadow
  • feeling in his bones



ANSWER 4

Score 8


ominous

  1. giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

Excerpt from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I felt the ominous future coming close, chilling me with an unutterable awe, forcing on me the conviction of an unseen design in the long series of complications which had now fastened round us. I thought of Hartright--as I saw him in the body when he said farewell; as I saw him in the spirit in my dream--and I too began to doubt now whether we were not advancing blindfold to an appointed and an inevitable end.