Adjective: ominous ó-mi-nus
- Indicating evil intent or suggesting tragic developments
"ominous rumblings of discontent";
- baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening
- Presaging ill fortune
"a dead and ominous silence prevailed";
- ill, inauspicious
See also: alarming, unpropitious
Encyclopedia: Ominous