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ominousadjective being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to comethat comment about downsizing from the company president sounded ominous baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich(chiefly Scottish), elegiac(also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray(also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretcheddiscouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitiousill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unluckyevil, malign, malignant unthreatening auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous ominous, portentous, fateful mean having a menacing or threatening aspect.ominous implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster.ominous rumblings from the volcano portentous suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity.an eerie and portentous stillness fateful suggests being of momentous or decisive importance.the fateful conference that led to war in 1580 |