Canadian English Meaning of ominous
ominous
Other Canadian English words related to ominous
- bleak
- menacing
- sinister
- baleful
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- dire
- foreboding
- grey
- grey
- sick
- ill-boding
- inauspicious
- lonely
- menacing
- murky
- portentous
- somber
- sombre
- threatening
- unfavourable
- unfortunate
- dismal
- Cheerless
- chill, cool
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- cheerless
- dim
- disconsolate
- disheartening
- disheartening
- dismal
- drear
- Dreary
- elegiac
- elegiac
- evil
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- God-forsaken
- hopeless
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- malignant
- Malignant
- morbid
- glum
- Plutonian
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- concerned
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- gloomy
Nearest Words of ominous
Definitions and Meaning of ominous in English
ominous (s)
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
presaging ill fortune
ominous (a.)
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
FAQs About the word ominous
ominous
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments, presaging ill fortuneOf or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant
bleak,menacing,sinister,baleful,dark,darkening,depressing,depressive,desolate,dire
benign,bright,encouraging,favourable,golden,hopeful,promising,Prosperous,unthreatening,Auspicious
omination => nomination, ominate => predict, omiletical => homiletical, omicron => omicron, omerta => omertà,
