Ominous synonyms

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(UK, slang) disgusting; gross

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That portends evil; ominous

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Often recurring to the mind and typically evoking poignant feelings

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auspicious (antonym)

Conducive to success.

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The definition of suggestive is something hinted at or recommended.

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Serving as a warning.

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Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky.

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Not lucky; having, attended with, bringing, or involving bad luck; unfortunate, ill-fated, or ill-omened

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Of or constituting a culminating or decisive event, turning point, etc., esp. one that is unsettling or threatening

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(--- Archaic) On, to, or toward the left-hand side; left

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Unfavorable; inauspicious:

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of evil portent

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Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.

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Sullen or threatening:

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Served without milk or cream:

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That lowers or frowns.

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ever-threatening

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Dire is defined as something that is urgent.

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Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.

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Overspread with or enveloped in darkness or dimness

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Involving peril or risk; dangerous

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Unlucky or doomed to disaster

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Unlucky; doomed.

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The definition of impending is about to happen.

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Extreme, as in degree or extent. Used especially of something negative:

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Unknown, surrounded in mystery.

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Not favorable; not auspicious.

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Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet

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warn (related)

Portending future disaster

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Ominous.

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encouraging (antonym)

Giving courage, confidence or hope

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Unpleasant; disagreeable:

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Having important consequences; often, specif., bringing death or destruction

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Suggesting imminent harm.

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favorable (antonym)

Advantageous; helpful:

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dangerous (related)

Full of danger; likely to cause injury, pain, etc.; unsafe; perilous

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dismal (related)

Causing gloom or misery; depressing

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doomed (related)

Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

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frightful (related)

Shocking; terrible

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oracular (related)

Like an oracle; wise, prophetic, mysterious, etc.

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Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.

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fire-and-brimstone

Characterized by an impassioned emphasis on damnation and eternal punishment

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Dignified and solemn or sedate in manner or mien

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Portending future disaster

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luck (related)

Portending future disaster

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Conveying or constituting a threat

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Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

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Stern, harsh and forbidding.

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Giving or containing monition; admonishing

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promising (antonym)

Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

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propitious (antonym)

The definition of propitious is someone that is helpful or generous.

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lucky (antonym)

The definition of lucky is someone who has good fortune, something that brings good fortune, or something that results from good fortune and chance.

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happy (antonym)

Being especially well-adapted; felicitous:

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Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

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Of a menacing or threatening nature; minatory.

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eerie (related)

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unmistakable (related)

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ominously (related)

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incongruous (related)

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unmistakeable (related)

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unnerving (related)

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Synonym Study

Foreboding implies a portent or presentiment of something evil or harmful a foreboding anxiety
Fateful may imply a fatal character or control by fate, but is now usually applied to that which is of momentous or decisive significance a fateful decision
Portentous may imply a foreshadowing, esp. of evil, but is now more often used of that which arouses awe or amazement because of its prodigious or marvelous character a portentous event
Ominous implies a threatening character but does not necessarily connote a disastrous outcome the request was met by an ominous silence

Find another word for ominous. In this page you can discover 66 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ominous, like: grim, portentous, haunting, auspicious, suggestive, premonitory, ill-omened, unlucky, apocalyptic, sinister and unpropitious.