ominous

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ominous Definition

• (s) 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 clo
• (s) 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"

ominous Synonyms

• baleful
• forbidding
• ill
• inauspicious
• menacing
• minacious
• minatory
• ominous
• sinister
• threatening
• ugly