Found 3 items, similar to Ominous.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: ominous sial
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ominous ominous adj 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” [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening, 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” [syn: ill, inauspicious]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ominous Ominous \Om"i*nous\, a. [L. ominosus, fr. omen. See Omen.] Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. [1913 Webster] He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. --South. [1913 Webster] -- Om"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om"i*nous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]