ill-boding
81dire — /ˈdaɪə / (say duyuh) adjective (direr, direst) 1. causing or attended with great fear or suffering; dreadful; awful: a dire calamity. –phrase 2. in dire straits, in extreme difficulty; in danger. {Latin dīrus fearful, portentous, ill boding}… …
82direful — [adj] fearful; horrible apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious; concepts 537,570 Ant. good,… …
83sinister — [adj] nasty, menacing adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, blackhearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malefic,… …
84threatening — [adj] menacing, ominous aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious,… …
85ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,… …
86malevolent — adj 1. malign, malignant, malicious, maleficent, malefic, evil intentioned, evil disposed, evil minded, unfriendly, obnoxious, ill natured, churlish, surly, disobliging, ungracious; spiteful, hateful, invidious, ill willed, ill disposed,… …
87malign — v 1. slander, libel, calumniate, traduce, falsify, accuse falsely; misrepresent, belie, asperse, im pute, insinuate; injure, abuse, assail, stab, insult, backbite, Sl. badmouth, engage in personalities; slur, sully, defile, smear, smirch,… …
88inauspicious — inauspiciously, adv. inauspiciousness, n. /in aw spish euhs/, adj. not auspicious; boding ill; ill omened; unfavorable. [1585 95; IN 3 + AUSPICIOUS] Syn. unpropitious, ill timed, unpromising. * * * …
89bode — [[t]bo͟ʊd[/t]] bodes, boding, boded VERB If something bodes ill, it makes you think that something bad will happen in the future. If something bodes well, it makes you think that something good will happen. [FORMAL] [V adv for n] She says the way …
90foreboding — n 1. augury, prediction, prognostication, prophesy, prefigurement, forecast, handwriting on the wall; premonition, prognostic, preindication, forewarning; foretoken, portent, omen, sign, token, harbinger. 2. presentiment, feeling, vague feeling,… …
