Synonyms of ill-boding

ill-boding

adjective

as in ominous

being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

in an ill-boding turn of events, the government began rounding up political dissidents

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ominous
• sinister
• menacing
• darkening
• threatening
• direful
• bleak
• foreboding
• portentous
• dark
• somber
• minatory
• baleful
• inauspicious
• dire
• depressive
• desolate
• ill
• lonely
• murky
• unfortunate
• depressing
• doomy
• black
• morbid
• gray
• unpropitious
• unfavorable
• cold
• gloomy
• lugubrious
• plutonian
• dismal
• drear
• morose
• dreary
• cheerless
• disconsolate
• sepulchral
• dim
• elegiac
• sullen
• grey
• evil
• lonesome
• forlorn
• saturnine
• sombre
• elegiacal
• glum
• discouraging
• comfortless
• unpromising
• troubled
• malignant
• wretched
• miserable
• disheartening
• funereal
• hopeless
• godforsaken
• tenebrific
• chill
• tenebrous
• cloudy
• sunless
• malign
• unlucky
• ill-fated
• Cimmerian
• ill-starred
• dreich
• star-crossed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorable
• golden
• promising
• bright
• benign
• propitious
• unthreatening
• prosperous
• auspicious
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartening

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• favorable
• golden
• promising
• bright
• benign
• propitious
• unthreatening
• prosperous
• auspicious
• hopeful
• encouraging
• heartening

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