Synonyms of minatory

minatory

adjective

ˈmi-nə-ˌtȯr-ē 

as in ominous

being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

the novel's protagonist is haunted by a minatory black specter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ominous
• sinister
• menacing
• threatening
• bleak
• portentous
• foreboding
• somber
• direful
• baleful
• dark
• dire
• darkening
• inauspicious
• lonely
• murky
• black
• grey
• depressive
• ill
• desolate
• gray
• depressing
• ill-boding
• unfortunate
• sombre
• doomy
• morbid
• funereal
• sepulchral
• saturnine
• lugubrious
• elegiac
• morose
• dim
• unfavorable
• cold
• cheerless
• sullen
• gloomy
• lonesome
• glum
• disconsolate
• unpropitious
• drear
• dismal
• discouraging
• dreary
• forlorn
• troubled
• comfortless
• tenebrous
• unpromising
• chill
• malignant
• disheartening
• hopeless
• cloudy
• malign
• evil
• miserable
• dreich
• plutonian
• godforsaken
• elegiacal
• wretched
• sunless
• Cimmerian
• unlucky
• ill-starred
• tenebrific
• ill-fated
• star-crossed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorable
• golden
• benign
• bright
• promising
• unthreatening
• encouraging
• hopeful
• auspicious
• prosperous
• propitious
• heartening

Examples of minatory in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Among the richest of the novel’s many pleasures are just such minor characters, including some irresistibly vain and grasping thespians and the minatory Appleby brothers, talent agents of sorts who shamelessly throw their considerable weight around. —Daniel Akst, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021

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