When “Ominous” is part of a puzzle, the following answers are those that have been accepted in similar clues. They’ve shown up before in crosswords using the same structure or intent.
Answer List:
- GRIM
- SINISTER
- DOOMY
- DIRE
- FATEFUL
- THREATENING
- ALARMING
- PORTENTOUS
- EERY
Synonyms and Definitions
GRIM
- Synonyms: black, blue, dark, depressed, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, dreary, forbidding, ghastly, gloomy, grisly, gruesome, inexorable, low, low-spirited, macabre, mordant, relentless, sick, sorry, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
SINISTER
- Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, threatening
DIRE
- Synonyms: awful, desperate, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
FATEFUL
- Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, foreboding, portentous
THREATENING
- Synonyms: endanger, heavy, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, lowering, menace, peril, sinister, sullen, threaten
ALARMING
- Synonyms: alarm, alert, appal, appall, dismay, horrify
PORTENTOUS
- Synonyms: fateful, grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, prodigious
EERY
- Synonyms: eerie