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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 See Also \| Ominous In Webster's Dictionary \Om"inous\, 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"inously}, adv. -- {Om"inous*ness}, n.

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"

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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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