If something looks or sounds ominous, be careful: a threat or an unpleasant event is at hand. If you see an ominous frown on your boss's face, you're in trouble!
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;
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
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 clo
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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.
Ominous
He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.
In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.--
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;
Usage Examples
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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