Definitions for ill-boding

ill-boding ill-bod·ing

Spelling: [il-boh-ding]
IPA: /ˈɪlˈboʊ dɪŋ/

Ill-Boding is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in ill-boding (-bdgiillno).

Definitions for ill-boding

adjective

  1. foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky:

Origin of ill-boding

First recorded in 1585-95

Examples for ill-boding

Rouse you, dear child of my love,—rouse you from your ill-boding security.

Then you would give up this ill-boding connection, but from notions of delicacy with regard to the time?

And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard.

The only answer that he received for some time was a loud and ill-boding murmur.

Mr. Douglas shook hands with him kindly, but from under his iron-gray, bushy brows shot an ill-boding look.

Houlagou did not speak for a little, and into his set face seemed to creep an ill-boding shadow of a smile.

Claudia had had a dream of strange and ill-boding character.

At the moment of our observing the ill-boding sign, a pig was in the act of entering the portals.

As the engine cools through inaction, the ill-boding wisp of spray lessens and dies.

The ill-boding tone had however taken such possession of my ear, that I could not get rid of it for the whole day.

Word Value for ill-boding
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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