Meaning & Definition of Ominous in English

1. 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"

2. 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"