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