ominous[adjective]Synonyms: sinister, fateful, foreboding, inauspicious, portentous, threatening, unpromising, unpropitious
Contrasted words: auspicious, benign, favorable, promising, propitious, beneficial
Related Words: portentous,
malefic,
maleficent,
malign,
sinister,
comminatory,
forbidding,
grim,
lowering,
menacing,
hostile,
inhospitable,
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om‧i‧nous /ˈɒmənəs, ˈɒmɪnəs $ ˈɑː-/
adjective[
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: Latin;
Origin: ominosus, from omen]
making you feel that something bad is going to happen:
‘How long will she be ill?’ he asked. There was an ominous silence. The car is making an ominous rattling sound.—ominously adverb:
The sky looked ominously dark. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲