Synonyms for Ominous
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Words related to "Ominous" (adjective) include baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory.
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"
Synonyms
balefulforbiddingmenacingminaciousminatorysinisterthreatening
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alarming
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"
Synonyms
illinauspicious
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unpropitious
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