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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;
under the ban.
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Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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Roget 511:
predicting
etc.
v.;
predictive,
prophetic;
fatidic†,
fatidical†;
vaticinal,
oracular,
fatiloquent†,
haruspical,
Sibylline;
weatherwise†.
ominous,
portentous,
augurous†,
augurial,
augural;
auspicial†,
auspicious;
prescious†,
monitory,
extispicious†,
premonitory,
significant of,
pregnant with,
bit with the fate of.
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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, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dark, deadly, deleterious, denunciatory, depressed, detrimental, dire, direful, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, fear-inspiring, forbidding, foreboding, foreshadowing, foretelling, foretokening, fortuneless, funest, gloomy, grim, hapless, harmful, hectoring, hostile, hurtful, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imminent, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, indicative, inhospitable, injurious, intimidating, lethal, lowering, luckless, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, mantic, meaningful, menacing, minacious, minatory, mischievous, noisome, noxious, of evil portent, oracular, out of luck, pernicious, planet-struck, poisonous, portending, portentous, predictive, prejudicial, premonitory, prognostic, prophetic, sad, scatheful, short of luck, sibyllic, sinister, somber, star-crossed, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful, toxic, unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, vaticinal, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, warning ... show more.
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