Ominous

Quick meaning: Ominous is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

More Meanings

1. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

Example Sentences

California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011

After growing substantially in the 1990s and modestly in the 2000s, the total number of American kids fell from 2010 through 2019, an ominous milestone.

The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.

In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.

Synonyms for ominous

Depending on context, synonyms include augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous.

Antonyms for ominous

Common opposites include auspicious, omenless, unomened.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include baleful, forbidding, minacious, menacing, minatory, threatening.

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