The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DIRE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2022.
Ominous crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DIRE | 41 % | 4 |
| SINISTER | 29 % | 8 |
| UGLY | 5 % | 4 |
| BALEFUL | 3 % | 7 |
| GRAVE | 3 % | 5 |
| EVIL | 3 % | 4 |
| FATEFUL | 3 % | 7 |
| FATAL | 2 % | 5 |
| AUGURAL | 2 % | 7 |
| BODING | 2 % | 6 |
| DIREFUL | 2 % | 7 |
| MENACING | 2 % | 8 |
| GRIM | 2 % | 4 |
| PORTENTOUS | 2 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ominous
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- menacing
- sinister
- alarming
- threatening
- baleful
- inauspicious
- ugly
- forbidding
- ill
- minacious
- minatory
- unpropitious
Crossword Answer definitions
DIRE adjective- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
- Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DIRE
- Harrowing
- Kind of straits
- Urgent
- Critical
- Like some straits
- Serious
- Macabre
- Straits or consequences preceder
- Very urgent
- Disastrous
More clues leading to the result SINISTER
More clues leading to the result UGLY
- Cinderella's sisters, for certain
- Like an ogre
- Loathsome
- Not very pretty
- Sight that makes eyes sore
- Dangerous, as a situation
- Like some truths
- The __ Duckling
- Coyote ___
- Ill-favored
More clues leading to the result BALEFUL
More clues leading to the result GRAVE
- People are dying to get there
- Pretty grim
- Serious
- Ominous
- Service area
- Mark in "vis-à-vis"
- Somber
- Zombie's "home"
- Weighty
- Accent type
More clues leading to the result EVIL
- Agatha Christie's "___ Under the Sun"
- Beyond bad
- Dark forces
- Doctor opposing Austin Powers
- Like Lucifer
- Like some spirits
- Mean business
- Satanic
- Sinister
- Wicked
More clues leading to the result FATEFUL
More clues leading to the result FATAL
- "___ Attraction"
- Deadly
- Lethal
- Catastrophic
- Disastrous
- Inevitable
- Like some flaws
- Ensuring failure
- Having dire consequences
- Calamitous
More clues leading to the result AUGURAL
More clues leading to the result BODING
More clues leading to the result DIREFUL
More clues leading to the result MENACING
More clues leading to the result GRIM
- Like the 'Reaper'
- Sinister
- Not at all rosy
- Long-faced
- Like the `Reaper'
- Really dark
- Not looking so good
- Morbid
- Not looking rosy
- Bleak in outlook