ominous
/icons/point.icon OMINOUS, PORTENTOUS, FATEFUL mean having a menacing or threatening aspect.
OMINOUS implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster.
e.g. ominous rumblings from the volcano
PORTENTOUS suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity.
e.g. an eerie and portentous stillness
FATEFUL suggests being of momentous or decisive importance.
e.g. the fateful conference that led to war
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adjective
giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious:
不吉な, 胸騒ぎのする
e.g. there were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead.
DERIVATIVES
ominousness | ˈämənəsnəs | noun
ORIGIN
late 16th century: from Latin ominosus, from omen, omin- ‘omen’.