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