Thesaurus:ominous
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: indicative of future troubles
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- augurous (uncommon)
- baleful
- bodeful
- boding
- dire
- disastrous [⇒ thesaurus]
- fatal
- foreboding
- ill-boding
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- inauspicate (obsolete)
- inauspicious
- nefastous (rare)
- omenic (rare)
- ominous
- portentous
- presageful
- presagious
- prodigious (archaic)
- sinister
- star-crossed (idiomatic)
- sullen [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “511. prediction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “ominous” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.