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· ominous
adjective
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
"a baleful look"
presaging ill fortune
"ill omens"
Similar words
baleful
forbidding
menacing
minacious
minatory
sinister
threatening
ill
inauspicious
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).