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 their 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 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 by Various

The solitude of the night was interrupted only by the howl of the wolf, the melancholy moan of the ill-boding owl or the shriek of the frightful panther.

From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Pale Studént:   The wooden-chuck is next of kin       Unto the wood-peckére:   I fear not thine ill-boding din,       And why should I fear her?

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn