The Clue
Threatening (7 letter answer)
The Answer
OMINOUS
Tags
Notes
The answer OMINOUS is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2100 puzzles.
Related Clues
Lowering
Sinister
Causing fear and anxiety
Like dark clouds
Like gathering storm clouds
Definition
OMINOUS as an adjective:
1. (baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening) = 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"
2. (ill, inauspicious, ominous) = 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"