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Ominous

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Definition

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

Synonyms & similar words

threatening ill sinister minacious inauspicious menacing forbidding baleful minatory threatening foreboding malignant sinister portentous unpropitious unlucky doom-laden fateful dire baleful menacing dangerous grim dreadful dark gloomy melancholy sad depressing

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