Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ominous; threatening; foreboding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Portentous; ominous.

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  • adjective Portentous; ominous.

Etymologies

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bode +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • He said nothing to the Boss because the night had been filled with shock and distress and he wanted to absorb this final bodeful moment on his own.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He said nothing to the Boss because the night had been filled with shock and distress and he wanted to absorb this final bodeful moment on his own.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Every tree heard the bodeful sound, and pillars of smoke gave the sign in the sky …

    Nature & Environment 2006

  • He said nothing to the Boss because the night had been filled with shock and distress and he wanted to absorb this final bodeful moment on his own.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Every tree heard the bodeful sound, and pillars of smoke gave the sign in the sky …

    Nature & Environment 2006

  • A cloud of extinction events, bodeful and indeterminate, hovers on the world horizon or just over it.

    Very Bad News Geertz, Clifford 2005

  • They disliked the bodeful chirp of the bat, the screech of the owl.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • During none of this-gruelling, outr6 and bodeful though most of it was-did he hear any suggestion

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • Before long, as is not unusual in such cases, it took another and more bodeful turn.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • It is destined to drown all lesser years, even as sunrise dims the morning stars with day; it is a year bright with promise and bodeful with ill-tidings also; for in the world at this moment there exist stupendous differences that this year will go far to set at rest.

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

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