bird of ill omen

noun

Roget 859: hopelessness etc. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression etc. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.    abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission etc. 725.    hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation etc. (disappointment) 509.    airy hopes etc. etc. 858; forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon [U.S.]; goner [Slang]; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu [Fr.]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 512: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign etc. (indication) 550; harbinger etc. (precursor) 64; yule candle^†.    bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning etc. 668.    prefigurement etc. 511.    ... show more

Roget 668: warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice etc. (information) 527; premonition, premonishment^†; prediction etc. 511; contraindication, lesson, dehortation^†; admonition, monition; alarm etc. 669.    handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra^†, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens^†, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.    watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse etc. (indication of locality) 550.    sentinel, sentry, , watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog^†, housedog^†; patrol, patrolman, vedette^†, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial^†; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.    cautiousness etc. 864.    monitor, guard camera, radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the-sky, U2 plane, spy plane.    ... show more

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