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ominous
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, foreboding |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malefic, malificent, malign, minatory, perilous, portentous, precursive, premonitory, presaging, prescient, prophetic, sinister, suggestive, threatening, unfriendly, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, happy, lucky, promising, propitious |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening |
| Antonyms: | hopeful, optimistic |
| Main Entry: | creepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, scary |
| Synonyms: | awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, shuddersome, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, sinister, somber, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, encouraging, hopeful, shining |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, upset |
| Synonyms: | dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | direful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful; horrible |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | fateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
| Synonyms: | acute, apocalyptic, conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinative, direful, doomful, eventful, important, inauspicious, momentous, ominous, portentous, resultful |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | fateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, fatal, lethal, mortal, ominous, ruinous |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | frightful/frightening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scary, shocking |
| Synonyms: | alarming, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, chilling, daunting, dire, direful, dismaying, disquieting, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, ghastly, grabber, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hairy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inconceivable, intimidating, lurid, macabre, menacing, morbid, ominous, petrifying, portentous, repellent, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, unnerving, unspeakable |
| Antonyms: | calming, comforting, pleasing |
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