Definition for Ominous:

• Foreboding or presaging evil.

Synonyms for Ominous:

• adj.

  •black (adjective)
  • sad,
  • sombre,
  • gloomy.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • perilous,
  • dangerous,
  • risky,
  • hazardous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • treacherous,
  • unsafe,
  • insecure,
  • precarious.
  •dark (adjective)
  • somber.
  •designative (adjective)
  • Indicatory.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • scabrous.
  •direful (adjective)
  • Ill-boding.
  •fateful (adjective)
  • Doomful.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • spooky,
  • nightmarish.
  •hellfire (adjective)
  • fire-and-brimstone.
  •menacing, foreboding (adjective)
  • malign,
  • prescient,
  • baneful,
  • unpropitious,
  • hostile,
  • Precursive,
  • inhospitable,
  • unfriendly,
  • malificent,
  • lowering.

• n.

  •
  • distressing.
  •foreboding (noun)
  • dismal,
  • ill-omened,
  • haunting,
  • fearful,
  • doomed,
  • clouded,
  • of evil portent,
  • suggestive,
  • Looming,
  • prophetic,
  • foreshadowing,
  • ill-starred,
  • Presaging,
  • ill-fated.

• Other synonyms:

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

Paraphrases for Ominous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    sinister, threatening.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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

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.