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Ominous

Ominous Meaning & Definition
Ominous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ominous?

[adj] presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
[adj] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ominous: alarming | baleful | forbidding | ill | inauspicious | menacing | minacious | minatory | sinister | threatening | ugly | unpropitious

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ominous: abusive | admonitory | apocalyptic | augural | bad | badly off | baleful | baneful | black | bludgeoning | blustering | bodeful | boding | browbeating | bulldozing | bullying | cautionary | comminatory | corroding | corrosive | corrupting | corruptive | counterproductive | damaging | dark | deadly | deleterious | denunciatory | depressed | detrimental | dire | direful | disadvantageous | disserviceable | distressing | donsie | doomful | dreary | evil | evil-starred | fatal | fateful | fear-inspiring | forbidding | foreboding | foreshadowing | foretelling | foretokening | fortuneless | funest | gloomy | grim | hapless | harmful | hectoring | hostile | hurtful | ill | ill off | ill-boding | ill-fated | ill-omened | ill-starred | imminent | in adverse circumstances | inauspicious | indicative | inhospitable | injurious | intimidating | lethal | lowering | luckless | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | malign | malignant | mantic | meaningful | menacing | minacious | minatory | mischievous | noisome | noxious | of evil portent | oracular | out of luck | pernicious | planet-struck | poisonous | portending | portentous | predictive | prejudicial | premonitory | prognostic | prophetic | sad | scatheful | short of luck | sibyllic | sinister | somber | star-crossed | terroristic | terrorizing | threatening | threatful | toxic | unblessed | underprivileged | unfavorable | unfortunate | unfriendly | unhappy | unlucky | unpromising | unpropitious | unprosperous | unprovidential | untoward | vaticinal | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | vicious | virulent | warning

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Ominous In Webster's Dictionary

\Om"i*nous\, a. [L. ominosus, fr. omen. See {Omen}.] 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. --Bacon. In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. --South. -- {Om"i*nous*ly}, adv. -- {Om"i*nous*ness}, n.

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