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