List of 240 Words That Sound Ominous
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Seeking English language words with an menacing or foreboding tone? See this list of relevant examples. In this collection, you'll find words that sound ominous.
| adverse | doomful | jitters | signal |
| afear | doomy | jittery | silence |
| afraid | downbeat | knell | silhouette |
| alarming | dread | lonely | sinister |
| anticipation | dreadful | lonesome | sinistrous |
| apocalypse | drear | looming | somber |
| apocalyptic | dreary | macabre | sombrous |
| appalling | dreich | malign | sorrowful |
| apparition | dystopian | malignant | specter |
| augur | eerie | melancholy | spooked |
| augural | evil | menace | spooky |
| awful | fatal | menacing | squally |
| bad | fateful | miasma | star-crossed |
| baleful | fearful | minacious | stare |
| bleak | fearsome | minatory | startling |
| bodeful | fog | miserable | stillness |
| boding | forbidden | morbid | stirring |
| calamitous | forbidding | morose | storm |
| caliginosity | forebode | murky | strange |
| cautionary | foreboding | mysterious | struck |
| cheerless | foreshadowing | mystery | sullen |
| chill | forlorn | nefarious | sunless |
| chilling | formidable | nightmare | superstition |
| Cimmerian | frightening | nightmarish | surly |
| complication | frightful | noose | symbol |
| consequence | ghastful | omen | symptom |
| crack | ghastly | ominate | tenebrific |
| crash | ghostly | oppressive | tenebrous |
| creak | ghoulish | Orwellian | terrible |
| creaking | gloom | overgloom | terrifying |
| creepy | gloomy | pall | threat |
| cry | glum | peril | threaten |
| cryptic | grave | perilous | threatening |
| dark | gray | pernicious | thud |
| darkening | grim | portent | thump |
| darkly | grisly | portentous | thunder |
| darkness | growl | premonition | thundercloud |
| daunting | gruesome | premonitory | thunderhead |
| deathwatch | harbinger | presage | thunderous |
| demonic | harmful | presentiment | thundery |
| depressing | haunting | prognosis | tragic |
| desolate | hellhound | prophecy | troubled |
| devilish | hiss | prophetic | troublesome |
| dim | hopeless | rattle | troubling |
| dire | horrendous | repercussion | twisted |
| direful | horrible | roar | ugly |
| disastrous | horrific | rumble | undercurrent |
| discomforting | horrifying | rumbling | uneasy |
| disconcerting | ill | saturnine | unfortunate |
| disconsolate | ill-boding | scaremongering | unlucky |
| discordant | ill-fated | scary | unnerving |
| discouraging | ill-starred | seemingly | unpleasant |
| disheartening | illness | selcouth | unpropitious |
| dismal | impending | sematic | unsettling |
| dismayful | inauspicious | serious | wailful |
| disquieting | incongruous | severe | warning |
| distressing | inescapable | shadow | whisper |
| disturbing | infaust | shadowy | worrisome |
| dolorous | insidious | shocking | worrying |
| doom | jarring | sign | wretched |
