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Antonyms for ominous
ˈɒm ə nəsomi·nous

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. ominousadjective

    Synonyms:
    threatening, portentous

  2. ominousadjective

    Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

    Synonyms:
    threatening, portentous

  3. ominousadjective

    Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.

    Synonyms:
    portentous, threatening

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ominous

    Antonyms:
    auspicious, propitious, encouraging

    Synonyms:
    portentous, suggestive, threatening, foreboding, premonitory, unpropitious

Princeton's WordNet3.5 / 2 votes

  1. baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threateningadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    unalarming, propitious

    Synonyms:
    grim, inauspicious, sullen, minacious, baneful, lowering, black, baleful, dark, sinister, heavy, minatory, dour, menacing, ill, forbidding, threatening

  2. ill, inauspicious, ominousadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    propitious, unalarming

    Synonyms:
    baleful, threatening, sick, minacious, ill, inauspicious, untoward, forbidding, minatory, menacing, sinister, adverse, unfortunate

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ominousadjective

    Synonyms:
    portentous, monitory, premonitory, threatening

How to use ominous in a sentence?

  1. Jasmine Crenshaw:

    The statements made by the deputy police chief and the event’s ostentatious show of power send an ominous, frightening message: that, as an official stance, law enforcement will not tolerate expressions acknowledging our nation’s history of unequal treatment and systematic oppression, the magnitude of this event chills the belief that police should be held accountable when they abuse their power or discriminate against people of color, and pressures student athletes to act as props of the police.

  2. Srikanth Kondapalli:

    The second informal meeting as such is significant given these ominous signals at bilateral, regional and global levels.

  3. Mike Bailey:

    Despite the ominous headlines about a trade war with China, we're comfortable with U.S. equities at current prices amid favorable macro trends and surging earnings growth.

  4. Nicolle Wallace:

    Glenn Youngkin worshipped at the altar of Donald Trump … Glenn Youngkin did not really put much distance between Glenn Youngkin and Donald Trump on the big lie or the deadly insurrection, so, I think that the real ominous thing, is that critical race theory, which is n’t real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump-insurrection-endorsed Republican.

  5. President George H.W. Bush:

    I remember very quiet nights at the dinner table, george was weighing grim scenarios and ominous intelligence about potentially even more devastating attacks.

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