PORTENTOUS Synonyms

• having momentous consequences; of decisive importance

• ominously prophetic

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

• a feeling of evil to come

• an unfavorable omen

• ominously prophetic

• of or relating to an apocalypse

• prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

• devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black

• (used of color) having a dark hue

• absence of light or illumination

• absence of moral or spiritual values

• an unilluminated area

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• an unenlightened state

• brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• secret

• showing a brooding ill humor

• lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• causing dejection

• not giving performances; closed

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

• causing fear or dread or terror

• suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious

• inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening

• an official prohibition or edict against something

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• discouraging through fear

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

• provoking fear or terror

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• on or starting from the wearer's left

• causing extreme terror

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• darkened by clouds

• Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic

• the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

• indistinctly prophetic

• of very great significance

• of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions