ominous
Adjective Satellite
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- "ominous rumblings of discontent"
- presaging ill fortune; ; ; - P.B.Shelley
- "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
- Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
Adjective
- Portending evil or suggesting something bad is about to happen.
Examples
- The lone ’Q’ in his rack felt ominous, hinting at a future blocking play.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin ōminōsus (“full of foreboding”), from ōmen (“forbidden fruit, omen”), from Old Latin osmen, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed (see ōmen).
Synonyms
baleful, forbidding, ill, inauspicious, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening, augurous, big, bodeful, boding, brooding, central, consequential, critical, crucial, dire, disastrous, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatal, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, foreboding, heavy, high on the totem pole, historic, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, momentous, necessary, nefastous, noted, noticeable, observable, omenic, ominous, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, star-crossed, sullen, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
ominous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordominous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ominous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary