Synonyms for ominous
ˈɒm ə nəsomi·nous

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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

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1. ominous

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

   Antonyms:
   auspicious, propitious, encouraging

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, propitious

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   propitious, unalarming

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1. ominousadjective

   Synonyms:
   portentous, monitory, premonitory

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1. ominousadjective

   Synonyms:
   portentous, monitory, premonitory, threatening

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1. List of paraphrases for "ominous":

   sinister, worrying, disturbing, worrisome, alarming

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1. David Joy:

   The message that financials are sending about growth is more ominous, banks are a proxy for the outlook for growth. And the outlook is diminishing.

2. Peter Turkson:

   He is not making some political comment about the relative merits of capitalism and communism. He is rather restating ancient biblical teaching, he is pointing to the ominous signs in nature that suggest that humanity may now have tilled too much and kept too little.

3. Srikanth Kondapalli:

   The second informal meeting as such is significant given these ominous signals at bilateral, regional and global levels, stabilizing relations is important as both are seized with a number of issues – domestic as well as regional.

4. George Santayana:

   For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

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.