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单词 ill-boding
释义

ill-boding

adjective

ill-bod·​ing ˈil-ˈbō-diŋ How to pronounce ill-boding (audio)
: boding evil : inauspicious

Synonyms

  • baleful
  • dire
  • direful
  • doomy
  • foreboding
  • ill
  • inauspicious
  • menacing
  • minatory
  • ominous
  • portentous
  • sinister
  • threatening
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Word History

First Known Use

1591, in the meaning defined above

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

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  • 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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