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121frightful — a. Terrible, terrific, fearful, alarming, dread, dreadful, direful, dire, horrid, horrible, awful, shocking, hideous, ghastly, grim, grisly, grewsome or gruesome …
122calamitous — adjective their calamitous adventure became legendary Syn: disastrous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, dire, tragic; literary direful …
123ill — 1. adjective 1) she was feeling rather ill Syn: unwell, sick, not (very) well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaked, indisposed, infirm; out of sorts, not oneself, bad, off, in a bad way, far gone; bedridden, valetudinarian …
124ominous — adjective ominous clouds Syn: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising; portentous, foreboding, fateful, premonitory; black, dark, gloomy; formal minatory; literary direful; rare… …
125sinister — adjective 1) there was a sinister undertone in his words Syn: menacing, threatening, ominous, forbidding, baleful, frightening, alarming, disturbing, disquieting, dark, black; formal minatory; literary direful 2) a sinister motive Syn …
126alarming — adj dreadful, terrible, grievous, dire; threatening, hazardous, dangerous, perilous; terrifying, frightful, direful, appalling, ominous, portentous; disturbing, distressing, harrowing, rending; redoubtable, fearsome, fearful, formidable, awful;… …
127awful — adj 1. dread, dreaded, dreadful, direful, terrible, terrifying, spine chilling. 2. bad, mean, petty, nasty, contemptible, base; distasteful, repulsive, grotesque, Sl. gross; unpleasant, unfortunate, terrible; inferior, shoddy, second rate, poor.… …
128black — adj 1. dark, pitch black, coal black, jet, jetty; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, pitchy, nigritu dinous, atramentous; blackish, nigrescent, swarthy, swart, dark skinned. 2.Negro, Negroid, colored, Afro American, Afra merican; Negrito, Papuan,… …
