ominous

ominous is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. presaging ill fortune- P.B.Shelley

   "ill omens"

   "ill predictions"

   Synonyms: ill, inauspicious

3. adjective. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"

   "forbidding thunderclouds"

   Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening

Synonyms

ill, inauspicious, baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ominous:

mousoni

Common word forms

ominously, ominousness

Words from these letters

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