ominous

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments (Freq. 10)
- 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
• Syn:
baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory,
sinister, threatening
• Similar to:
alarming
• Derivationally related forms:
omen, balefulness (for: baleful)
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
• Syn:
ill, inauspicious
• Similar to:
unpropitious
• Derivationally related forms:
omen, inauspiciousness (for: inauspicious)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ill, inauspicious, baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening