Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | odd, bizarre |
| Synonyms: | awe-inspiring, awful, creepy*, curious, dreadful, eccentric, eerie*, far-out, fearful, flaky*, freaky, funky*, ghastly, ghostly, grotesque, haunting, horrific, inscrutable, kinky*, kooky, magical, mysterious, occult, oddball, ominous, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, queer, secret, singular, spooky*, strange, supernal, supernatural, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lowering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | threatening |
| Synonyms: | gloomy, heavy, menacing, ominous, overcast, overhanging |
| Main Entry: | scabrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | dangerous, hard, knotty, ominous, perilous, treacherous |
| Main Entry: | apocalyptic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fateful |
| Synonyms: | ominous, oracular, predictive, prophetic, revealing |
| Main Entry: | augural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
| Synonyms: | divinatory, fatidic, fatidical, foreshadowing, mantic, ominous, oracular, predictive, presaging, prophetical, sibylline, telling, vatic, vatical, visionary |
| Main Entry: | hellfire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fateful |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, dire, direful, disastrous, fatal, fire-and-brimstone, grave, lethal, mortal, ominous, portentous, ruinous, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | indicatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | designative |
| Synonyms: | augural, auspicious, characteristic, connotative, demonstrative, denotative, denotive, designatory, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, evincive, exhibitive, exhibitory, expressive, inauspicious, indicative, indicial, ominous, pointing to, prognostic, significant, significatory, suggestive, symbolic, symptomatic, testatory, testimonial |
| Main Entry: | perturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, disruptive, distressful, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, intrusive, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | troublous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbing |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, disruptive, distressful, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, intrusive, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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