Thesaurus:ominous

Thesaurus

ominous

English

Adjective

Sense: indicative of future troubles

Synonyms

• 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)

Antonyms

• auspicious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• omenless
• unomened

Hyponyms

• black-letter
• disastrous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• doomed    [⇒ thesaurus]
• doomsday

Hypernyms

• evil    [⇒ thesaurus]
• fated    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unlucky    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ----
• augural
• panomphean
• prophetic

Further reading

• “511. prediction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “ominous” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.