| Main Entry: | ill-boding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous |
Synonyms: |
apocalyptic, dire, evil, inauspicious, unfavorable, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | direful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful; horrible |
Synonyms: |
apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious |
Antonyms: |
good, nice |
| Main Entry: | inauspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, unpromising |
Synonyms: |
bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising |
| Main Entry: | ominous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, foreboding |
Synonyms: |
apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malefic, malificent, malign, minatory, perilous, portentous, precursive, premonitory, presaging, prescient, prophetic, sinister, suggestive, threatening, unfriendly, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, happy, lucky, promising, propitious |
| Main Entry: | portentous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting; foreboding |
Synonyms: |
alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, augural, destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful, haunting, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous, phenomenal, premonitory, prophetic, remarkable, suggestive, threatening, thrilling |
| Main Entry: | sinister |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, menacing |
Synonyms: |
adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, blackhearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, obnoxious, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, woeful |
Antonyms: |
benevolent, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | threatening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, ominous |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, minatory, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |
Antonyms: |
nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | minatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | threatening |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, alarming, apocalyptic, at hand, baleful, baneful, black, bullying, cautionary, close, comminatory, dangerous, dire, fateful, forthcoming, grim, ill-boding, imminent, impendent, impending, inauspicious, intimidatory, looming, loury, lowering, lowery, minacious, near, overhanging, portending, portentous, scowling, sinister, terrorizing, ugly*, unlucky, unpropitious, unsafe, upcoming, warning |