Clues for the word "OMINOUS"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 59 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on April 29, 2026.
Definition of ominous
- a. - Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
Referring Clues
- Foreboding
- Sinister
- Appearing threatening
- Inauspicious
- Bad-looking
- Like dark clouds
- Menacing
- Foreboding harm
- Lowering
- Unpromising
- Like gathering storm clouds
- Unsettling-sounding
- Threatening
- Portending evil
- Foreboding evil (7)
- Foreboding evil
- Forbidding
- Nothing less holds nothing threatening
- Zero? Less than zero? About zero? That's unpromising!
- Portending bad things
- Portentous
- Portentous doctor lifted one with common sense
- Portentous mantra intoned by one with common sense
- Menacing black coat with front not seen by us
- Sinister-looking
- Threatening disaster? Nothing less, without oxygen
- Threatening nothing, I'm retreating with common sense
- Not promising nothing less when there's nothing involved
- Sinister contents of room in 'ouse of 'orrors
- Very threatening
- Threatening to remove voluminous parts
- Portending danger
Last Seen In
- LA Times - April 29, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2026
- Your Life Choices - November 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 06, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 26, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 16, 2023
- LA Times - April 18, 2023
- LA Times - February 12, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 28, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 11, 2022
- Chronicle of Higher Education - August 04, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 09, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 09, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - May 06, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - March 12, 2017
- Guardian Quick - January 04, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - December 18, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 12, 2016
- LA Times Sunday - September 25, 2016
- Guardian Quick - May 07, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - May 01, 2016
- Family Time - December 27, 2015
- LA Times - December 12, 2015
- Guardian Everyman - May 24, 2015
- And in 29 more crossword puzzles...