Synonyms of millenarian

millenarian

adjective

as in apocalyptic

Related Words

• apocalyptic
• prophetic
• predictive
• sinister
• menacing
• portentous
• threatening
• foreboding
• baleful
• dire
• unpromising
• oracular
• inauspicious
• revelatory
• telling

Dissimilar Words

• promising
• rosy
• propitious
• auspicious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of millenarian

One of her essential maneuvers is to treat politics—and in particular the millenarian views that once animated and then fractured her family—as an exhausted subject, an aspect of character rather than a topic in itself. — Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026

Her disappearance was later attributed to a millenarian cult. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

His ideas precipitated a tectonic crisis of political legitimacy and unleashed a series of continent-wide wars, sometimes featuring millenarian protocommunist sects like the Anabaptists, who sought to overthrow the social order. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026

Jerusalem has reason to greatly fear a millenarian regime with an eschatological worldview that has already demonstrated a willingness and ability to overwhelm Israeli air defenses and deliver warheads over its cities. — The Editors, National Review, 17 Apr. 2025

Many rebellions against China’s official rulers came from millenarian groups and religious cults that sprang up among the oppressed. — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023

The reality is that the global network has become a transmission mechanism for all kinds of manias and panics, just as the combination of printing and literacy temporarily increased the prevalence of millenarian sects and witch crazes. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017