boding
121bode — bode1 /bohd/, v., boded, boding. v.t. 1. to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him. 2. Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict. v.i. 3. to portend: The news bodes well for him. [bef. 1000; ME boden, OE bodian to announce,… …
122favorable — favorableness, n. favorably, adv. /fay veuhr euh beuhl, fayv reuh /, adj. 1. characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report. 2. creating or winning favor; pleasing: to make a favorable impression. 3. affording advantage,… …
123funest — /fyooh nest /, adj. boding or causing evil or death; fatal; disastrous. [1645 55; < F funeste < L funestus, deriv. of funus funeral, death] * * * …
124inauspicious — 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. * * * …
125unsonsy — /un son see/, adj. Brit. Dial. bringing or boding ill luck. [1550 60; UN 1 + SONSY] * * * …
126bodingly — adverb in a boding manner …
127dire — adjective /daɪə(ɹ)/ a) Ill boding; portentous. dire omens b) Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. dire consequences …
128disastrous — adjective a) of the nature of a disaster; calamitous. b) foreboding disaster; ill omened. Syn: cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill boding, inausîcuous, sinister …
