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 |
| FATEFUL | 3 % | 7 |
| BALEFUL | 3 % | 7 |
| GRAVE | 3 % | 5 |
| EVIL | 3 % | 4 |
| DIREFUL | 2 % | 7 |
| MENACING | 2 % | 8 |
| GRIM | 2 % | 4 |
| PORTENTOUS | 2 % | 10 |
| FATAL | 2 % | 5 |
| AUGURAL | 2 % | 7 |
| BODING | 2 % | 6 |
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 FATEFUL
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 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
More clues leading to the result PORTENTOUS
More clues leading to the result FATAL
- "___ Attraction"
- Deadly
- Lethal
- Catastrophic
- Disastrous
- Inevitable
- Like some flaws
- Ensuring failure
- Having dire consequences
- Calamitous