English adjective: ominous | |||
1. | ominous threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | ||
Samples | 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 | baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening | ||
Similar | alarming | ||
Antonyms | unalarming | ||
2. | ominous presaging ill fortune | ||
Samples | Ill omens. Ill predictions. My words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven. A dead and ominous silence prevailed. A by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government. | ||
Synonyms | ill, inauspicious | ||
Similar | unpropitious | ||
Antonyms | propitious | ||