'ominous' definitions:
Definition of 'ominous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]
adjective
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" [syn: ill, inauspicious, ominous]
Synonyms of 'ominous'
From: 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