English to English adjective
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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. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | | Example: 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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presaging ill fortune | | Example: ill omens ill predictions my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven a dead and ominous silence prevailed a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government
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