portending+disaster

  • 11apocalyptically — adverb a) in an apocalyptic manner b) in a manner portending future disaster, devastation and doom …

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  • 12apocalyptic — 1. adjective /əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪk/ a) Of, or relating to an apocalypse b) Portending future disaster, devastation and doom 2. noun /əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪk/ One who predicts …

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  • 13evil — Synonyms and related words: Loki, Nemesis, Set, Typhon, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abomination, accursed, ado, affliction, agony, amorality, angry, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, awful, backsliding,… …

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  • 14dire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. appalling, calamitous, fateful, dreadful, ominous; deplorable. See fear, adversity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. dreadful, terrible, desperate; see frightful 1 , urgent 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 15fateful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. momentous; prophetic; disastrous. See destiny, prediction, importance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Momentous] Syn. portentous, critical, decisive; see crucial , ominous . 2. [Fatal] Syn. destructive …

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  • 16grave — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sepulcher, tomb, mausoleum; death.See interment. adj. important, weighty, serious; sedate, dignified; momentous, solemn; dull, somber. See dejection, importance, inexcitability. II (Roget s IV) modif …

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  • 17ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,… …

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  • 18unlucky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unfortunate, ill starred, ill omened, hopeless, disastrous; regrettable. See adversity, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unfortunate] Syn. luckless, unhappy, afflicted; see unfortunate 2 . 2.… …

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  • 19portentous — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ominous] Syn. ominous, foreboding, prophetic, momentous; see important 1 , ominous , sinister . 2. [Unusual] Syn. rare, extraordinary, significant; see unusual 2 . See Synonym Study at ominous . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) …

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  • 20apocalyptic — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. prophetic, revelatory, oracular, prescient. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Portending future disaster: apocalyptical, baneful, dire, direful, fateful, fire and brim stone, grave2, hellfire, ominous, portentous …

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