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121foreboding — n 1. augury, prediction, prognostication, prophesy, prefigurement, forecast, handwriting on the wall; premonition, prognostic, preindication, forewarning; foretoken, portent, omen, sign, token, harbinger. 2. presentiment, feeling, vague feeling,… …
122sinister — adj 1. ominous, inauspicious, unpropi tious, portentous, ill omened, sinistrous, foreboding, fateful, direful; menacing, minatory, minacious, threatening; dangerous, perilous, hazardous; treacherous, perfidious, untrustworthy. 2. bad, base, vile …
123doomed — [adj] condemned, hopeless bedeviled, bewitched, convicted, cursed, cut down, damned, dead duck*, destroyed, done, done for*, fated, foreordained, ill fated, ill omened, in the cards*, kiss of death*, lost, luckless, menaced, overthrown,… …
124inauspicious — [adj] ominous, unpromising bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill boding, ill omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely …
125cocks — A cock crowing at daybreak drives away *ghosts and evil spirits, and even Satan, as in the legend of the *Devil s Dyke. Henry *Bourne noted in his Antiquitates Vulgares (1725), chapter 6, that: It is a received tradition among the Vulgar,… …
126stumbling — The idea that it is a bad omen to stumble is one of the few superstitions which have sufficient documentary record to indicate a clear lineage in English folk belief back to medieval times and beyond, with a relatively unchanged meaning. The… …
127unlucky — [unluk′ē] adj. unluckier, unluckiest not lucky; having, attended with, bringing, or involving bad luck; unfortunate, ill fated, or ill omened unluckily adv …
128unchancy — “+ adjective 1. chiefly Scotland : ill fated, ill omened, unlucky 2. chiefly Scotland : unsafe to meddle with : dangerous …
