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