ominous

Meaning

1. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
2. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

Synonyms

sinister

threatening

inauspicious

ill-omened

unlucky

baleful

menacing

ghastly

foreboding

weird

minacious

minatory

dreadful

portentous

forbidding

eerie

awful

frightening

ill omen

horrifying

ill

🤢

ill-boding

terrifying

horrible

terrible

lowering

uncanny

unfavorable

unholy

frightful

strange

sullen

tough

treacherous

tricky

ugly

wolfish

dark cloud

sinistrous

likely to grow worse

evillooking

presageful

badly marked evil looks

evil-looking

evileyed

having evil mark

lacking good qualities

unseemly manner

abominable

presagious

angry

😠

bad luck

baneful

black

catastrophic

dark

direful

disgraceful

evil

execrable

fateful

flagrant

gloomy

haunted

horrid

imminent

impendent

impending

inauspiciousness

jinxed

luckless

lurid

mongrel

oracular

pessimistic

scandalous

scary

spooky

stinking

Hyphenated as

o‧mi‧nous

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɒmɪnəs/

Etymology

From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from ōs (“the mouth”) + -men.