Synonyms and Antonyms of minatory
- the novel's protagonist is haunted by a minatory black specter
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious
ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky