ill-boding Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- dire
- ill
- gray
- lonely
- desolate
- depressive
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- portentous
- morbid
- baleful
- darkening
- dark
- doomy
- minatory
- black
- bleak
- sombre
- somber
- foreboding
- murky
- direful
- grey
- inauspicious
- depressing
- threatening
- cold
Weak:
- evil
- ill-fated
- morose
- sunless
- tenebrific
- hopeless
- miserable
- troubled
- cimmerian
- elegiacal
- disheartening
- wretched
- unlucky
- drear
- ill-starred
- dismal
- elegiac
- malignant
- forlorn
- cloudy
- dreich
- malign
- funereal
- dim
- dreary
- tenebrous
- cheerless
- godforsaken
- sepulchral
- chill
- glum
- unpropitious
- comfortless
- unpromising
- discouraging
- lugubrious
- lonesome
- plutonian
- disconsolate
- saturnine
- sullen
- gloomy
Meaning of ill-boding
ill-boding (a.)
Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened.
ill-boding Sentence Examples
- The sky grew ominously dark, casting an ill-boding shadow over the village.
- The ominous silence before the storm filled the air with an ill-boding dread.
- The doctor's prognosis was ill-boding, leaving little hope for recovery.
- The sudden drop in temperature and the howling wind were ill-boding signs of an approaching blizzard.
- The ill-boding news of the job losses spread like wildfire through the town.
- The fortune teller's predictions were ill-boding, foretelling a difficult and uncertain future.
- The ill-boding omen of a black cat crossing my path sent shivers down my spine.
- The ill-boding laughter of the clown echoed through the empty circus tent, creating an eerie atmosphere.
- The ill-boding growl of the dog at the stranger made my heart skip a beat.
- The ill-boding creaks and groans coming from the old house were a constant reminder of its ominous history.
FAQs About the word ill-boding
Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened.
menacing, sinister,ominous, dire, ill, gray, lonely, desolate, depressive, unfavorable
hopeful, bright, benign, bright, hopeful, unthreatening, golden, promising, favorable, prosperous
The sky grew ominously dark, casting an ill-boding shadow over the village.
The ominous silence before the storm filled the air with an ill-boding dread.
The doctor's prognosis was ill-boding, leaving little hope for recovery.
The sudden drop in temperature and the howling wind were ill-boding signs of an approaching blizzard.
