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suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future

baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening(adj)

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

"a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

ill, inauspicious, ominous(adj)

presaging ill fortune

"ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

that comment about downsizing from the company president sounded ominous

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