bodeful

comparative more bodeful · superlative most bodeful

1. Portentous; ominous; foreboding.

   It is a voice bodeful of death or of life.

   1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VI (Thermidor), page 383

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   They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.

   1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 66

   Synonyms: inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine