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synonyms for ominous
- apocalyptic
- dangerous
- dark
- dire
- dismal
- gloomy
- grim
- haunting
- perilous
- portentous
- prophetic
- sinister
- threatening
- augural
- baleful
- baneful
- clouded
- direful
- doomed
- doomful
- fateful
- fearful
- forbidding
- hostile
- ill-boding
- ill-fated
- impending
- inauspicious
- inhospitable
- lowering
- malefic
- malificent
- malign
- minatory
- precursive
- premonitory
- presaging
- prescient
- suggestive
- unfriendly
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
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How to use ominous in a sentence
In her first movie in more than a decade, decorated New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst in an ominous, gorgeously saturated Western set in 1920s Montana.
There is definitely an ominous butt hanging over our future.
What We Learned This Week Is That Sara Libby Got a New Gig | Scott Lewis | August 18, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe other, more ominous reason is we may well need to pull the planet back after it blows through dangerous temperature thresholds.
The UN climate report pins hopes on carbon removal technologies that barely exist | James Temple | August 9, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
This ancient crow has just cast the soul into an elongated, particularly ominous door.
I guess the skincare die hards have finally gotten to me with their ominous messaging about how excessive sunlight can damage my hide in ways that are undetectable early on but will come back to haunt me later in life.
In the back of my mind I was wondering how much time we had before there might be an ominous knock at the door.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn The Lodger an ominous character paced the floor, which Hitchcock constructed of glass.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe wrote that he deserved to die and alluded to a ominous plan that he had backed out of twice already.
School Shooters Love This Pickup Artist Website | Brandy Zadrozny | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe drumbeat and synth bass are as insistent as they are ominous.
Other hints at the changing war are less ominous, but obnoxious nonetheless.
Downsizing the War: Layoffs and Yard Sales in Afghanistan | Nick Willard | August 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlso, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that is ammunition.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThey were followed by a little dried-up Italian army surgeon, who carried under his arm an ominous-looking black case.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsTony was gay, light-hearted as usual, belying Mrs. Haughstone's ominous prediction.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe glowing heavens, luminous athwart the clouds of fine, suspended sand, laid this ominous hint of dream upon the entire day.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodOnly the western heavens, where the sun sank in a red mass of ominous splendour, was alive with energy.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
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