| 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: | 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: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
Synonyms: |
afflictive, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, horrid, in the pits, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy |
Antonyms: |
bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | fateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
Synonyms: |
acute, apocalyptic, conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinative, direful, doomful, eventful, important, inauspicious, momentous, ominous, portentous, resultful |
Antonyms: |
insignificant, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, evil |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, adverse, antagonistic, cantankerous, cross, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, disrespectful, disturbing, foreboding, foul, harmful, harsh, hateful, hostile, hurtful, ill-mannered, impertinent, inauspicious, inimical, iniquitous, injurious, malevolent, malicious, nocent, nocuous, noxious, ominous, ruinous, sinister, sullen, surly, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, ungracious, unhealthy, unkind, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unwholesome, vile, wicked, wrong |
Antonyms: |
good |
| Main Entry: | ill-fated/ill-starred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doomed |
Synonyms: |
blighted, catastrophic, destroyed, disastrous, hapless, ill-omened, inauspicious, luckless, misfortunate, ruined, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward |
Antonyms: |
happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | indicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibitive |
Synonyms: |
apocalyptic, augural, auspicious, characteristic, connotative, demonstrative, denotative, denotive, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, evincive, expressive, inauspicious, indicatory, indicial, ominous, pointing to, prognostic, significant, significatory, suggestive, symbolic, symptomatic, testatory, testimonial |
| Main Entry: | inopportune |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appropriate or suitable |
Synonyms: |
contrary, disadvantageous, disturbing, ill-chosen, ill-timed, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, malapropos, mistimed, troublesome, unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely |
Antonyms: |
appropriate, auspicious, ok, opportune, suitable, timely |
| 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 |