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101inauspicious — I adjective adverse, boding, disadvantageous, ill timed, inadvisable, inexpedient, infelix, inopportune, mistimed, nefastus, ominous, presageful, problematic, problematical, unfavorable, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward II… …
102dire — 1560s, from L. dirus fearful, awful, boding ill, of unknown origin; perhaps from Oscan and Umbrian and perhaps cognate with Gk. deinos, from PIE root *dwei …
103obscene — (adj.) 1590s, offensive to the senses, or to taste and refinement, from M.Fr. obscene, from L. obscenus offensive, especially to modesty, originally boding ill, inauspicious, of unknown origin; perhaps from ob onto (see OB (Cf. ob )) + caenum… …
104unlucky — (adj.) 1520s, marked by misfortune or failure, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + LUCKY (Cf. lucky). Cf. W.Fris. unlokkich, M.L.G. unluckich. Sense of boding ill is recorded from 1540s; that of having bad luck is from 1550s; that of bringing bad luck is …
105hazardous — adj 1. dangerous, fraught with danger, perilous, jeopardous, venturesome, dire, Archaic. parlous, Sl. hairy; threatening, disquieting, menacing, minatory, ominous, inauspicious, unfavorable, boding ill; risky, insecure, precarious, unsafe,… …
106omen — n 1. portent, sign, token, foretoken, harbinger; premonition, preindication, forewarning, foreshadowing, handwriting on the wall. 2. prognostic, prognostication, prediction, forecast, prophecy, prefigurement, augury, auspice, vaticination,… …
107perilous — adj dangerous, fraught with danger, hazardous, chancy, jeopardous, Archaic. parlous, risky, venturesome; treacherous, deceptive, unreliable, untrustworthy, sneaky; threatening, menacing, minatory, minacious; building up, impending, looming,… …
108premonition — n 1. preindication, forewarning, foreshadowing, handwriting on the wall; omen, sign, portent, token, foretoken, harbinger; prognostic, prognostication, bodement, forecast, augury. 2. presentiment, presage, foreboding, feeling, vague feeling, Inf …
109presage — n 1. presentiment, foreboding, feeling, vague feeling, Inf. funny feeling, Inf. feeling in one s bones, suspicion, Inf. sneaking suspicion, Inf. hunch, intuition; anxiety, misgiving, apprehension, apprehen siveness, boding; dread, fear, ill… …
110bode — UK [bəʊd] / US [boʊd] verb Word forms bode : present tense I/you/we/they bode he/she/it bodes present participle boding past tense boded past participle boded bode well/ill formal to be a sign that something good/bad will happen The fact that we… …
