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ominous |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ominous \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ominous adj 1: 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" [syn: {baleful}, {forbidding}, {menacing}, {minacious}, {minatory}, {sinister}, {threatening}, {ugly}] 2: 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" [syn: {ill}, {inauspicious}]
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