All ominous synonyms

adjective ominous

• threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
• warning — the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
• worrying — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
• menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
• ill-omened — having or attended by bad omens; ill-starred.
• unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
• foreboding — a prediction; portent.
• apocalyptic — Apocalyptic means relating to the total destruction of something, especially of the world.
• dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
• dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
• dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
• dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
• grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• haunting — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
• perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
• prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
• sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
• augural — the art or practice of an augur; divination.
• baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
• baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
• clouded — of or relating to cloud computing: cloud software; cloud servers.
• direful — dreadful; awful; terrible.
• doomed — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
• doomful — foreshadowing doom; portentously direful; ominous.
• fateful — having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
• fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
• forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
• hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
• ill-boding — foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky: ill-boding stars.
• ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
• impending — about to happen; imminent: their impending marriage.
• inauspicious — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
• inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
• lowering — comparative of low1 .
• malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
• malign — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
• minatory — menacing; threatening.
• precursive — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
• premonitory — giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
• prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
• suggestive — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
• unfriendly — not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.
• unlucky — (of a person) not lucky; lacking good fortune; ill-fated.
• unpropitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.