What is another word for ominous?
663 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈɒmɪnəs], [ ˈɒmɪnəs], [ ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_s]Table of Contents
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)
- 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 synonyms
- injurious
- other relevant words
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.
- 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 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.
Paraphrases for Ominous:
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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
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.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
disturbing, worrisome, disquieting, alarming, troubling, worrying, unsettling, frightening, distressing, terrifying, scary.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Ominous:
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adj.
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menacing, foreboding
joyful, hopeful, secure, lucky, safe, promising, auspicious, pleasant, cheerful, propitious, bright, light, good, sunny, happy, nice, encouraging.
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Other antonyms:
unalarming, unthreatening, prosperous.
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menacing, foreboding