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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Since BSNL internet connection has been closed down since morning today under influence of corporate bodies it is an ominous sign of some major up or down in the stock market in the first hour of trading session. BEWARE

5. D. W. Brogan:

   For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.