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