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101fateful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. momentous; prophetic; disastrous. See destiny, prediction, importance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Momentous] Syn. portentous, critical, decisive; see crucial , ominous . 2. [Fatal] Syn. destructive …
102grave — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sepulcher, tomb, mausoleum; death.See interment. adj. important, weighty, serious; sedate, dignified; momentous, solemn; dull, somber. See dejection, importance, inexcitability. II (Roget s IV) modif …
103ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,… …
104unlucky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unfortunate, ill starred, ill omened, hopeless, disastrous; regrettable. See adversity, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unfortunate] Syn. luckless, unhappy, afflicted; see unfortunate 2 . 2.… …
105oracular — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Vague or obscure] Syn. ambiguous, mysterious, cryptic; see obscure 1 , 3 , vague 2 . 2. [Prophetic] Syn. prescient, soothsaying, foretelling, prophesying, forecasting, predicting, presaging, foreboding, auguring, augural …
106portentous — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ominous] Syn. ominous, foreboding, prophetic, momentous; see important 1 , ominous , sinister . 2. [Unusual] Syn. rare, extraordinary, significant; see unusual 2 . See Synonym Study at ominous . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) …
107apocalyptic — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. prophetic, revelatory, oracular, prescient. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Portending future disaster: apocalyptical, baneful, dire, direful, fateful, fire and brim stone, grave2, hellfire, ominous, portentous …
108direful — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. see dire II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Causing or able to cause fear: appalling, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, redoubtable, scary, terrible, tremendous. See FEAR. 2.… …
109apocalyptical — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Portending future disaster: apocalyptic, baneful, dire, direful, fateful, fire and brimstone, grave2, hellfire, ominous, portentous, unlucky. See LUCK, WARN …
110baneful — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Extremely destructive or harmful: deadly, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, virulent. See HELP. 2. Portending future disaster: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, dire, direful, fateful, fire and …
