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