Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.

synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening.

Roget 909: threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious^†; comminatory^†, abusive; in terrorem [Lat.]; ominous etc. (predicting) 511; defiant etc. 715; under the ban.    ... show more