ominous

Adjective
  1. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments (synset 300195958)
    "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"
    similar to: alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
    same as: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening
  2. Presaging ill fortune (synset 300179426)
    "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
    similar to: unpropitious - not propitious
    same as: ill, inauspicious

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