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ominous

adjective

1 ominous

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments:
— Ominous rumblings of discontent.

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

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

Roget 665: in danger etc. n.; endangered etc. v.; fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected ... show more

Roget 511: predicting etc. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise.    ... show more

2 ominous

Presaging ill fortune:
— A dead and ominous silence prevailed.

synonyms: ill, inauspicious.


Moby thesaurus: abusive, admonitory, apocalyptic, augural, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, corroding, corrosive ... show more.

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