Ominous

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
 * 2) Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.
 * 3) * California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011

Synonyms

 * portentous
 * threatening

Derived terms

 * ominously
 * ominousness

Related terms

 * omen

Adverbs for Ominous
unmistakably; significantly;  disturbingly; distressingly; sadly; prophetically; alarmingly; unpleasantly; dismally; markedly; noticeably; drearily; fearfully; terribly; heartbreakingly.

Thesaurus
abusive, admonitory, apocalyptic, augural, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dark, deadly, deleterious, denunciatory, depressed, detrimental, dire, direful, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, fear-inspiring, forbidding, foreboding, foreshadowing, foretelling, foretokening, fortuneless, funest, gloomy, grim, hapless, harmful, hectoring, hostile, hurtful, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imminent, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, indicative, inhospitable, injurious, intimidating, lethal, lowering, luckless, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, mantic, meaningful, menacing, minacious, minatory, mischievous, noisome, noxious, of evil portent, oracular, out of luck, pernicious, planet-struck, poisonous, portending, portentous, predictive, prejudicial, premonitory, prognostic, prophetic, sad, scatheful, short of luck, sibyllic, sinister, somber, star-crossed, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful, toxic, unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, vaticinal, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, warning

Etymology
From ominosus: < omen: < os: + -men:

Translations

 * Catalan: ominós
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ავბედი
 * Hungarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ავბედი
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:


 * Portuguese: ominoso
 * Russian: предвещающий
 * Portuguese: ominoso
 * Russian: предвещающий
 * Russian: предвещающий


 * Catalan: ominós
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ildevarslende, uheldsvanger
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: ავბედი
 * Hungarian: baljós, baljóslatú
 * Georgian: ავბედი
 * Hungarian: baljós, baljóslatú
 * Hungarian: baljós, baljóslatú


 * Polish: złowróżbny, złowieszczy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: зловещий
 * Spanish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: зловещий
 * Spanish: ,


 * : de mauvais augure(2)
 * : mencekam, gelagat buruk
 * : ziyandar (1); bêyom (2), bêxêr (2), bêoxir (2)
 * : ominosus