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ominous (From their town the Lonely Mountain was mostly screened by the low hills at the far end of the lake ... Only its high peak could they see in clear weather, and they looked seldom at it, for it was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning. • Nothing moved in the waste, save the vapour and the water, and every now and again a black and ominous crow. • The sun is gone, the wind is blowing cold, and a wall of differing shades of grey looms around us. It seems huge, overpowering. The prairie here is huge but above it the hugeness of this ominous grey mass ready to descend is frightening.); baleful; bodeful; grim; portentous; sinister; direful; evil; fateful; inauspicious; sullen; evil-boding; ill-boding; ill-looking; ill-omened; presageful; dire; dismal; sinistrous; wrathful; wrath; wrathy; left-handed; Manichaean (ABelonogov); menacing (Aly19); foreboding (bookworm); augural; evil boding; ill boding; ill looking; ill omened; lurid; spooky (Alex1888); fearsome (I. Havkin); macabre (Andrey Truhachev); eery; squint-eyed; doom-laden (Sergei Aprelikov); black; disastrous; crawly (Taras); death shadowed; eerie (alexs2011); malevolent (This group was talked about in occult circles up till around 1920, and then things went largely silent about them, said Greenfield, who added that a number of writers and publishers who attempted to expose them had been targeted or met with sudden deaths. As Phillips was working on their book about the Black Lodge, someone very close to him almost died, and he attributed this to the malevolent occult group as punishment for writing about them.  coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
