ominous
I
adjective
adverse, alarming, augurial, auspicial, baleful, bodeful, dangerous, dark, depressing, dire, direful, disastrous, dismaying, dispiriting, disquieting, disturbing, divinatory, fatidic, fatidical, fear-inspiring, fearful, forbidding, forboding, frightful, gloomy, grim, hapless, haunting, hopeless, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, luckless, menacing, minacious, minatory, monitory, morbid, perilous, pessimistic, portending evil, portentous, precursive, precursory, premonitory, presageful, presaging, presentient, pythonic, sinister, somber, threatening, threatful, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, vatic, vaticinal
II
index
aleatory (perilous), bleak (not favorable), dangerous, dire, imminent, inauspicious, insalubrious, oracular, pending (imminent), portentous (ominous), presageful, prophetic, suggestive (evocative), unfavorable, unpropitious
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006