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Pronunciation:
[ ˈɒmɪnəs], [ ˈɒmɪnəs], [ ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_s]
Related words: foreboding, menacing, menacingly, dark, foreshadowing, portentous, ominous feelings, ominously, dark and foreboding, ominous feeling, ominous meaning, ominous warning
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Similar words for ominous:
- all (adjective)
- apocalyptic (adjective)
- augural (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- creepy (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- designative (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- direful (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- fateful (adjective)
- frightening (adjective)
- frightful/frightening (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- hellfire (adjective)
- hurtful (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- impending (adjective)
- imposing (adjective)
- indicative (adjective)
- indicatory (adjective)
- lowering (adjective)
- menacing, foreboding (adjective)
- monstrous (adjective)
- nightmarish (adjective)
- oracular (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pending (adjective)
- portentous (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- spooky (adjective)
- treacherous (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unadvantageous (adjective)
- unfavorable (adjective)
- unlucky (adjective)
- unpropitious (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- warning (adjective)
- weird (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- foreboding (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- injurious
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ominous:
adj.
• all (adjective) • apocalyptic (adjective) • augural (adjective)- foreshadowing,
- fore shadowing,
- most prophetical,
- more foreshadowing,
- fore-shadowing,
- most foreshadowing,
- prophetical,
- more prophetical.
- more itching,
- more shuddersome,
- dis gusting,
- most shuddersome,
- dis-gusting,
- un pleasant,
- hair raising,
- most itching,
- un-pleasant,
- hairraising.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- malign,
- prescient,
- baneful,
- unpropitious,
- hostile,
- Precursive,
- inhospitable,
- unfriendly,
- malificent,
- lowering.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
• alarming (noun) • foreboding (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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•
- dire.
- 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.
How to use "Ominous" in context?
There is a word that people often use to describe situations that make them feel uneasy, or scared. ominous is defined as premonitory or portending danger or evil. The words ominous and ominousness are both derived from the Latin word ominus, which means "threatening or frightening." It can be used to describe anything that makes someone feel uneasy, such as an ominous looking cloud, a strange noise, or an ominous letter.
Someone might use the word ominous to describe a situation because they're feeling scared or nervous.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
sinister, threatening.
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Adjective
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Independent
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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.
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Other Related
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Adjective
alarming, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, frightening, scary, terrifying, troubling, worrisome, worrying, unsettling.
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