English

Detailed Synonyms for ominous in English

ominous:

ominous adj

  1. ominous
  2. ominous
    scary
    – provoking fear terror 1
    • scary adj
      • a scary movie1
  3. ominous
  4. ominous
    – presaging ill fortune 1
    ill; ominous; inauspicious
    – presaging ill fortune 1
    • ill adj
      • ill omens1
      • ill predictions1
    • ominous adj
      • a dead and ominous silence prevailed1
    • inauspicious adj
      • my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven1
  5. ominous
    – threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments 1
    ominous; sinister; threatening; forbidding; menacing; minatory; baleful; minacious
    – threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments 1

Related Words for "ominous":

  • ominousness, ominously

Alternate Synonyms for "ominous":


Related Definitions for "ominous":

  1. presaging ill fortune1
    • a dead and ominous silence prevailed1
  2. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments1
    • ominous rumblings of discontent1