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Showing words for OMINOUS using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Ominous

ominous

6 Letter Words for Ominous

moison, musion, simoon, soniou

5 Letter Words for Ominous

minos, minus, monos, moons, munis, muons, nomoi, nomos, numis, onium, osmin, simon, suomi, unism

4 Letter Words for Ominous

ions, mino, mins, miso, moio, mono, mons, mooi, moon, moos, moun, mous, muni, muns, muon, muso, nims, noms, nous, omni, onus, ooms, oons, sion, sium, snum, soom, soon, soum, sumi, sumo, suni, unio, unis

3 Letter Words for Ominous

imo, imu, ins, ion, ios, iou, ism, isn, iso, min, mis, moi, mon, moo, mos, mou, mun, mus, nim, nis, nom, noo, nos, num, nus, ois, oms, oni, ono, ons, oom, oon, oos, osi, oui, ous, sim, sin, som, son, sou, sui, sum, sun, ums, uni, uns

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