ill-boding Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- ill
- threatening
- grey
- foreboding
- bleak
- doomy
- inauspicious
- dark
- cold
- direful
- baleful
- desolate
- depressive
- depressing
- portentous
- darkening
- minatory
- morbid
- somber
- unfavorable
- murky
- black
- sombre
- gray
- unfortunate
- dire
- lonely
Weak:
- funereal
- sunless
- cimmerian
- evil
- dismal
- tenebrific
- cheerless
- disheartening
- ill-fated
- cloudy
- malignant
- chill
- gloomy
- glum
- tenebrous
- hopeless
- morose
- sullen
- lonesome
- elegiac
- discouraging
- elegiacal
- malign
- unpropitious
- forlorn
- troubled
- ill-starred
- drear
- comfortless
- wretched
- lugubrious
- godforsaken
- dim
- unlucky
- disconsolate
- miserable
- saturnine
- plutonian
- unpromising
- dreary
- dreich
- sepulchral
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.
ominous, menacing, sinister, ill,threatening, grey, foreboding, bleak, doomy, inauspicious
unthreatening, bright, hopeful, favorable, bright, hopeful, prosperous, promising, golden, promising
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.
