ill-boding

American  

[il-boh-ding] / ˈɪlˈboʊ dɪŋ /

adjective

1. foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky.

   ill-boding stars.

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Etymology

Origin of ill-boding

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards.

From Time Magazine Archive

With those ill-boding words the third day closed since Pippin came to Minas Tirith.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

How must ill-boding horrors fill her breast, When she beholds men mark'd above the rest For qualities most dear, plung'd from that height, And sunk, deep sunk, in second childhood's night!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

I will no longer hear The ill-boding note which frantic hatred sounds To affright a fortune which the Gods secure.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

So I dropped my work, and sat silent as a chidden child, a little sorry, a little afraid, and beneath all some hot anger at whatever influence prompted the ill-boding expression.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston