Ominous /(?)/

Om·i·nous

Ominous

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
    He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.
    In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.