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How to pronounce ominous:

Synonyms for ominous:

alarming
baleful
black
bleak
bodeful
dark
darkening
depressing
depressive
desolate
dire
direful
doomy
fateful
forbidding
foreboding
gray
grey
grim
ill
ill-boding
inauspicious
lonely
menacing
minacious
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Antonyms for ominous:

advantageous
agreeable
aiding
amicable
amusing
anodyne
appealing
assisting
auspicious
away
beautiful
beneficial
benevolent
benign
blessed
blest
blithe
blithesome
boosting
bright
bubbly
buoyant
calm
calming
carefree
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