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Definitions for Ominous
[1] portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
[2] indicating the nature of a future event, for good or evil; having the significance of an omen; being a portent: Some of these events were immediately ominous, while others only later revealed themselves as such.
[3] foreboding evil
[4] serving as or having significance as an omen
Words related to Ominous
apocalyptic, prophetic, dangerous, sinister, threatening, perilous, dark, gloomy, dismal, dire, haunting, portentous, grim, baleful, baneful, direful, doomed, fateful, fearful, forbidding
Words nearby Ominous
omertà, omg, omi, omicron, omigod, ominous, omissible, omission, omissive, omit, omiya
Origin of Ominous
1580–90; < Latin ōminōsus portentous, equivalent to ōmin- (stem of ōmen ) omen + -ōsus -ous
Other words from Ominous
om·i·nous·ly , adverb
om·i·nous·ness , noun
un·om·i·nous , adjective
un·om·i·nous·ly , adverb
un·om·i·nous·ness , noun
Word origin for Ominous
C16: from Latin ōminōsus, from omen
Synonyms for Ominous
apocalyptic, dangerous, dark, dire, dismal, gloomy, grim, haunting, perilous, portentous, prophetic, sinister, threatening, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, direful, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful, forbidding, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malefic, malificent, malign, minatory, precursive, premonitory, presaging, prescient, suggestive, unfriendly, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious