| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened.[Websters]
2. Being ominous, inauspicious or unpropitious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being sinister, portentous or baleful. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb ill-bodingly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (ill-bodingly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective ill-boding.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ILL-BODING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
