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English adjective: ominous

1. ominous threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments


SamplesA 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.


Synonymsbaleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening


Similaralarming


Antonymsunalarming

2. ominous presaging ill fortune


SamplesIll 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.


Synonymsill, inauspicious


Similarunpropitious


Antonymspropitious









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