Textual thesaurus for "ominous"

(adj) ill, inauspicious

presaging ill fortune

ill omens; ill predictions; my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven- P.B.Shelley; a dead and ominous silence prevailed; a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government

(adj) threatening, baleful, minacious, minatory, sinister, menacing, forbidding

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

a baleful look; forbidding thunderclouds; his tone became menacing; ominous rumblings of discontent; sinister storm clouds; a sinister smile; his threatening behavior; ugly black clouds; the situation became ugly