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Noun jonah has 3 senses
- jonah(n = noun.person) Array - (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land; Array is a kind of prophet
- jonah(n = noun.person) jinx - a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him; Array is a kind of unfortunate, unfortunate person
- jonah(n = noun.communication) book of jonah - a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale; Array is a kind of book
is a part of old testament, nebiim, prophets
CIDE DICTIONARY
jonah, n.
The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jonah, n. a person who seems to bring bad luck.
Etymology
Jonah in the Old Testament
THESAURUS
jonah
Abraham, Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, Hosea, Isaac, Isaiah, Jacob, Jeremiah, Joel, Joseph, Joshua, Malachi, Micah, Moses, Nahum, Samuel, Zephaniah, bad influence, curse, enchantment, evil eye, evil genius, evil star, hex, hoodoo, ill wind, jinx, malevolent influence, malocchio, prophet, spell, vates sacer, voodoo, whammyROGET THESAURUS
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Badness
N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.
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