Synonyms for Ominous:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • ominous.
  •apocalyptic (adjective)
  • most revealing,
  • more revealing.
  •augural (adjective)
  • foreshadowing,
  • fore shadowing,
  • most prophetical,
  • more foreshadowing,
  • fore-shadowing,
  • most foreshadowing,
  • prophetical,
  • more prophetical.
  •baleful (adjective)
  • fore-boding,
  • ruinous,
  • fore boding,
  • venomous,
  • more evil,
  • most foreboding,
  • more foreboding.
  •black (adjective)
  • sad,
  • doleful,
  • gloomy,
  • funereal,
  • sombrer,
  • sombre,
  • depressive.
  •creepy (adjective)
  • more itching,
  • more shuddersome,
  • dis gusting,
  • most shuddersome,
  • dis-gusting,
  • un pleasant,
  • hair raising,
  • most itching,
  • un-pleasant,
  • hairraising.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • perilous,
  • dangerous,
  • risky,
  • hazardous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • treacherous,
  • unsafe,
  • insecure,
  • precarious.
  •dark (adjective)
  • morose,
  • somber,
  • drab.
  •designative (adjective)
  • Indicatory.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • scabrous.
  •direful (adjective)
  • Ill-boding.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • most aggravating,
  • most discomforting,
  • troubling,
  • dis comforting,
  • most discomposing,
  • dis-comforting,
  • dis-composing,
  • dis-concerting,
  • embarrassing,
  • more troubling,
  • most harassing,
  • more vexing,
  • dis composing,
  • most discommoding,
  • more aggravating,
  • most disconcerting,
  • more harassing,
  • more impeding,
  • most vexing,
  • more agitating,
  • more discomforting,
  • most agitating,
  • more discomposing,
  • Harassing,
  • more disconcerting,
  • most impeding,
  • most troubling,
  • impeding,
  • dis concerting,
  • more discommoding.
  •fateful (adjective)
  • Resultful,
  • Doomful.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • spooky,
  • nightmarish.
  •frightful/frightening (adjective)
  • more grabber,
  • dis maying,
  • most unnerving,
  • un-nerving,
  • dis-quieting,
  • un speakable,
  • dis-maying,
  • horrendous,
  • more traumatic,
  • most dismaying,
  • most horrifying,
  • most petrifying,
  • in-conceivable,
  • in conceivable,
  • most traumatic,
  • un nerving,
  • most grabber,
  • dis quieting,
  • more horrifying,
  • more unnerving,
  • more daunting,
  • more dismaying,
  • unspeakable,
  • most daunting,
  • grisly,
  • fearsome,
  • un-speakable,
  • more petrifying.
  •grave (adjective)
  • fellest,
  • feller,
  • killing,
  • most killing,
  • more killing.
  •grim (adjective)
  • most splenetic,
  • in tractable,
  • in-tractable,
  • un yielding,
  • un-yielding,
  • in exorable,
  • most crabbed,
  • stern,
  • in-exorable,
  • un-relenting,
  • re solute,
  • more splenetic,
  • re-solute,
  • un relenting,
  • splenetic.
  •hellfire (adjective)
  • fire-and-brimstone.
  •hurtful (adjective)
  • pre-judicial,
  • more hurting,
  • most hurting,
  • un-kind,
  • un-kindest,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • pre judicial,
  • dis advantageous,
  • more wounding,
  • un-kinder,
  • un kind,
  • most wounding,
  • un kinder,
  • un kindest,
  • mischievous.
  •ill (adjective)
  • un gracious,
  • un promising,
  • un fortunate,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un healthier,
  • most nocent,
  • un-promising,
  • un-wholesome,
  • un healthy,
  • un wholesome,
  • un-friendliest,
  • illmannered,
  • ill mannered,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-gracious,
  • dis respectful,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-healthy,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-friendly,
  • dis-respectful,
  • un-fortunate,
  • more unpromising,
  • un friendlier,
  • un healthiest,
  • more nocent.
  •impending (adjective)
  • looking to,
  • most portending,
  • most handwriting on the wall,
  • most gathering,
  • over hanging,
  • most brewing,
  • more hovering,
  • more brewing,
  • overhanging,
  • more portending,
  • more gathering,
  • most hovering,
  • most handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • more handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • over-hanging,
  • in offing,
  • in wind,
  • more handwriting on the wall,
  • in cards,
  • more overhanging,
  • on horizon,
  • most overhanging.
  •imposing (adjective)
  • one for book,
  • more mega,
  • mindblowing,
  • over blown,
  • mind blowing,
  • most mega,
  • something to write home about,
  • over whelming,
  • over-whelming,
  • over-blown,
  • something write home about,
  • ex citing.
  •indicative (adjective)
  • expressive,
  • Evincive,
  • testatory,
  • Significatory,
  • evidential,
  • indicial,
  • symptomatic,
  • pointing to.
  •indicatory (adjective)
  • de-signatory,
  • de signatory.
  •lowering (adjective)
  • over-cast,
  • over cast.
  •menacing, foreboding (adjective)
  • malign,
  • prescient,
  • baneful,
  • unpropitious,
  • hostile,
  • Precursive,
  • inhospitable,
  • unfriendly,
  • malificent,
  • lowering.
  •monstrous (adjective)
  • in famous,
  • un usual,
  • most teratoid,
  • most miscreated,
  • un-usual,
  • more teratoid,
  • mis created,
  • in human,
  • Miscreated,
  • more miscreated,
  • in tolerable,
  • un canniest,
  • un cannier,
  • in-tolerable,
  • un-canniest,
  • dis-graceful,
  • un-canny,
  • in-human,
  • dis graceful,
  • mis-created,
  • un-cannier,
  • un canny.
  •nightmarish (adjective)
  • scarier,
  • scary.
  •oracular (adjective)
  • sibylline.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • unfavorable,
  • oracular,
  • Discommodious,
  • warning,
  • nocent,
  • traumatic,
  • sinister,
  • unpromising,
  • blackhearted,
  • Teratoid,
  • direful,
  • unadvantageous,
  • of great consequence,
  • tough luck,
  • imposing,
  • ugly,
  • out of luck,
  • Augural,
  • in the wind,
  • handwriting-on-the-wall,
  • fateful,
  • troublous,
  • hurtful,
  • something else,
  • indicative,
  • disturbing,
  • hard luck,
  • one for the book,
  • on the horizon,
  • perturbing,
  • waiting to,
  • in the cards,
  • behind eight ball,
  • grim,
  • Mega,
  • down on luck,
  • see it coming,
  • weird,
  • bad break,
  • unlucky,
  • dark,
  • impending,
  • pending,
  • malefic,
  • creepy,
  • baleful,
  • upsetting,
  • see coming,
  • in the offing,
  • grave,
  • shuddersome,
  • grabber,
  • unsettling,
  • life and death.
  •pending (adjective)
  • in the works,
  • on board,
  • on line,
  • in balance,
  • in line,
  • in the balance.
  •portentous (adjective)
  • extra ordinary.
  •sinister (adjective)
  • more blackhearted,
  • most blackhearted,
  • most malefic,
  • more malefic,
  • dis honest,
  • dis-honest.
  •spooky (adjective)
  • spine-chilling.
  •treacherous (adjective)
  • in securer,
  • un safe,
  • in securest,
  • un reliable,
  • mis leading,
  • in-securer,
  • in-secure,
  • pre-carious,
  • un-safe,
  • un-soundest,
  • un-safer,
  • in secure,
  • un dependable,
  • un stable,
  • pre carious,
  • un-stabler,
  • un safer,
  • mis-leading,
  • un-safest,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-dependable,
  • more dissembled,
  • un stabler,
  • un stablest,
  • un-sound,
  • un safest,
  • un-stable,
  • un-sounder,
  • in-securest,
  • un-stablest,
  • un sound,
  • most dissembled,
  • un sounder.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • dis-agreeable,
  • dis agreeable.
  •unadvantageous (adjective)
  • un-satisfactory,
  • un advantageous,
  • un-advantageous,
  • un satisfactory.
  •unfavorable (adjective)
  • dis-commodious,
  • un favorable,
  • illadvised,
  • most discommodious,
  • in opportune,
  • in convenient,
  • in advisable,
  • in-opportune,
  • un-fit,
  • un-timelier,
  • un-seasonable,
  • dis commodious,
  • more discommodious,
  • un suited,
  • in-felicitous,
  • un-timely,
  • un seasonable,
  • in-advisable,
  • un-seemlier,
  • un-favorable,
  • un timely,
  • in-convenient,
  • un timelier,
  • un timeliest,
  • un-seemliest,
  • un seemlier,
  • un-timeliest,
  • un-suited,
  • in expedient,
  • in felicitous,
  • un seemliest,
  • in-expedient,
  • un seemly.
  •unlucky (adjective)
  • un happiest,
  • un-lucky,
  • un luckiest,
  • starcrossed,
  • illstarred,
  • ill starred,
  • un happy,
  • un successful,
  • un luckier,
  • un-successful,
  • down luck,
  • star crossed,
  • out luck,
  • un lucky,
  • un-luckiest,
  • un happier,
  • un-happy,
  • un-luckier.
  •unpropitious (adjective)
  • un-propitious,
  • un propitious.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un-settling,
  • un settling.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up-setting,
  • up setting.
  •warning (adjective)
  • Monitorial,
  • exhortatory.
  •weird (adjective)
  • farout,
  • magical,
  • in-scrutable,
  • awe inspiring,
  • un-natural,
  • un couth,
  • un-couth,
  • aweinspiring,
  • in scrutable.

• n.

  •
  • severe,
  • anxious,
  • serious,
  • distressing,
  • stressful,
  • worrying,
  • tense.
  •
  • warn,
  • luck.
  •alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  •foreboding (noun)
  • ill-starred,
  • fearful,
  • haunting,
  • Presaging,
  • of evil portent,
  • doomed,
  • ill-omened,
  • dismal,
  • forewarning,
  • ever-threatening,
  • prophetic,
  • ill-fated,
  • suggestive,
  • Looming,
  • clouded.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • minacious,
  • minatory,
  • black,
  • ill,
  • forbidding,
  • premonitory,
  • monitory,
  • menacing,
  • threatening,
  • portentous,
  • inauspicious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fire and brimstone,
  • apocalyptic,
  • apocalyptical,
  • hellfire,
  • frightful.
  •
  • dire.
  •injurious
  • harmful.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • atrocious,
  • boding,
  • formidably,
  • poisonous,
  • critical,
  • cloudy,
  • damaging,
  • badly,
  • unhappy,
  • Fiendly,
  • excessively,
  • horrible,
  • deadly,
  • pernicious,
  • underprivileged,
  • foretelling,
  • vicious,
  • bullying,
  • horrendously,
  • crucial,
  • adverse,
  • fear,
  • terrorising,
  • explosive,
  • Grewsome,
  • corroding,
  • noxious,
  • corrosive,
  • painfully,
  • unpleasantly,
  • adversity,
  • affliction,
  • significantly,
  • pain,
  • dim,
  • Auspicial,
  • torture,
  • helpless,
  • unfavourable,
  • depressed,
  • famine,
  • dour,
  • infelicity,
  • Disserviceable,
  • poorly,
  • greatly,
  • frightfully,
  • horrifically,
  • infelicitous,
  • sibyllic,
  • Fortuneless,
  • Crumbling,
  • enormously,
  • horrifyingly,
  • evil,
  • intimidating,
  • cautionary,
  • in terrorem,
  • terrifyingly,
  • shockingly,
  • mantic,
  • Bulldozing,
  • miserable,
  • wonderfully,
  • fatal,
  • untoward,
  • unstable,
  • woeful,
  • unwholesome,
  • horridly,
  • badness,
  • comminatory,
  • Extispicious,
  • awful,
  • anxiety,
  • dearth,
  • disastrous,
  • ghastly,
  • grief,
  • calamitous,
  • Guideless,
  • unpleasant,
  • timidly,
  • very,
  • unblessed,
  • torment,
  • decisive,
  • frightening,
  • admonitory,
  • outrageously,
  • alarmingly,
  • Prescious,
  • veneniferous,
  • wretchedly,
  • distressingly,
  • bleak,
  • chancy,
  • wickedly,
  • Direly,
  • nasty,
  • gravely,
  • prognostic,
  • horrifying,
  • Venenate,
  • Scatheful,
  • calamity,
  • wintry,
  • sternly,
  • shaky,
  • harshly,
  • hideously,
  • prejudicial,
  • terrifying,
  • meanly,
  • consequential,
  • abominably,
  • grimly,
  • unfortunate,
  • unsteady,
  • venenous,
  • monstrously,
  • unspeakably,
  • noisome,
  • grievously,
  • ramshackle,
  • tumbledown,
  • maleficent,
  • virulent,
  • surly,
  • sick,
  • important,
  • abusive,
  • terroristic,
  • injurious,
  • cheerless,
  • uncomfortable,
  • troublesome,
  • fearsomely,
  • scandalously,
  • severely,
  • importantly,
  • Augurial,
  • disquieting,
  • hopeless,
  • hapless,
  • weirdly,
  • luckless,
  • detrimental,
  • corruptive,
  • heavily,
  • momentous,
  • deleterious,
  • sullen,
  • fearfully,
  • misery,
  • louring,
  • significant,
  • Browbeating,
  • badly off,
  • counterproductive,
  • trouble,
  • nastily,
  • Bodeful,
  • vile,
  • bad luck,
  • crazily,
  • predictive,
  • ominously,
  • major,
  • malevolent,
  • knowing,
  • bludgeoning,
  • despicable,
  • apprehensively,
  • misfortune,
  • terrifically,
  • in adverse circumstances,
  • dreary,
  • Star-crossed,
  • defiant,
  • unprosperous,
  • agony,
  • Vaticinal,
  • discomfort,
  • destruction,
  • Discomforting,
  • lethal,
  • weighty,
  • tremendously,
  • denunciatory,
  • appallingly,
  • bad,
  • timorously,
  • Portending,
  • seriously,
  • mortally,
  • wretched,
  • waterlogged,
  • anguish,
  • illomened,
  • extremely,
  • soberly,
  • frighteningly,
  • bashfully,
  • tenebrous,
  • terrible,
  • terribly,
  • Predicting,
  • atrociously,
  • concern,
  • difficulty,
  • heavy,
  • desperately,
  • gruesomely,
  • top-heavy,
  • creepily,
  • Foretokening,
  • awfully,
  • distress,
  • earth-shaking,
  • amazingly,
  • harsh,
  • hardship,
  • Funest,
  • sadly,
  • madly,
  • eerie,
  • prodigiously,
  • monstrous,
  • awesomely,
  • fraught with danger,
  • terrorizing,
  • disadvantageous,
  • meaningful,
  • corrupting,
  • Planet-struck,
  • dreadfully,
  • Hectoring,
  • imminent,
  • Augurous,
  • Threatful,
  • pivotal,
  • woe,
  • toxic,
  • foreboding,
  • malignant,
  • tottering,
  • il,
  • hardly,
  • blustering,
  • unworthy,
  • horribly,
  • scowling,
  • awkward,
  • exceedingly.

Paraphrases for Ominous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    sinister, threatening.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    appalling, bad, bleak, daunting, dire, disastrous, dreadful, eerie, formidable, gloomy, grim, gruesome, harmful, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, ill-fated, infamous, insidious, menacing, nefarious, pernicious, serious, severe, sobering, spooky, terrible, troublesome, unfortunate, unholy.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    alarming, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, frightening, scary, terrifying, troubling, worrisome, worrying, unsettling.

Antonyms for Ominous:

• adj.

  • menacing, foreboding
    joyful, hopeful, secure, lucky, safe, promising, auspicious, pleasant, cheerful, propitious, bright, light, good, sunny, happy, nice, encouraging.
  • Other antonyms:
    unalarming, unthreatening, prosperous.