Antonyms 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

   Antonyms:
   auspicious, propitious, encouraging

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

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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"

   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

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1. ominousadjective

   Synonyms:
   portentous, monitory, premonitory, threatening

How to use ominous in a sentence?

1. The Post:

   The moon dropped over like an ominous curtain, it was as if the black-hand of fate had snuffed man’s solar candle. And suddenly the watching thousands realized the wonder of the universe and the weakness of little men.

2. 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.

3. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani:

   Our discussions were based on how to bring under control and eliminate those ominous phenomena which are obstacles to stability, prosperity and cooperation in the region.

4. 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.

5. Sam Bullard:

   We don't think it will detract from the possibility that the Fed is considering a September rate hike, only if we saw ominous signs of a deterioration elsewhere in the data.

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