Defenition of the word ominous

• Defenition of the word ominous

  • threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
  • presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
  • presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
  • threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clo
  • presaging ill fortune
  • threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Synonyms for the word ominous

• • baleful
  • boding evil
  • forbidding
  • gloomy
  • ill
  • ill-omened
  • inauspicious
  • menacing
  • minacious
  • minatory
  • portentous
  • sinister
  • threatening
  • ugly
  • unpromising
  • warning
  • worrying

Similar words in the ominous

• • alarming
  • ominous
  • ominously
  • unpropitious

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