Difference between Ominous and Menacing

OMINOUS vs MENACING: ADJECTIVE

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.
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.
Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.
Menacing; threatening.
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Presaging ill-fortune

Of ill omen; giving indication of coming ill; portentous; inauspicious; unlucky.
Of good omen; auspicious.
Conveying some omen; serving as a sign or token; significant.

Eerie, Grim, Unsettling, Minacious, Ill, Forbidding, Threatening, Unpropitious, Minatory, Ugly, Inauspicious, Baleful, Sinister, Alarming, Menacing

Brutish, Fearsome, Dire, Threat, Scary, Intimidating, Minacious, Alarming, Forbidding, Ugly, Threatening, Baleful, Minatory, Sinister, Ominous

Eerie, Grim, Unsettling, Minacious, Ill, Forbidding, Threatening, Unpropitious, Minatory, Ugly, Inauspicious, Baleful, Sinister, Alarming, Menacing

Brutish, Fearsome, Dire, Threat, Scary, Intimidating, Minacious, Alarming, Forbidding, Ugly, Threatening, Baleful, Minatory, Sinister, Ominous

But almost immediately they ran into ominous opposition.
There was nothing but ominous silence from Kolanse.
SYN: Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical, oracular, sibylline.
The reports produced by these teams were ominous.
The chiefs had regarded that as particularly ominous.
Lena notices other, ominous signs, though, and sheworries.
One other resignation had even more ominous overtones.
This evasion, however, is the less ominous option.
Polyhydramnios and fetal intrauterine growth restriction: ominous combination.
We heard an ominous hiss from the kitchen.

Critics say such menacing symbols show vigilante mentality.
This time for felony menacing, robbery and assault.
Suddenly it became menacing, powerful, harsh as stone.
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That Sting was pretty menacing in my opinion.
Menacing and frenzied, the insight distanced her further.
Shadow Matter a horrific group of menacing creatures.
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The position, from critical, had become menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate.
With menacing, indie horror films to bloody sequels, menacing film schedule making it a little bit more difficult to sleep at night.