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OMINOUS (7)
ominous
ominous, doomful - a
portending evil
synonyms
baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening
in a sentence
an ominous threat of war
He spoke in ominous tones.
Arranged in two long and ominous rows, the branding irons dangled from the ceiling in the center of the room, suggesting some sort of fence or jail …
Fighting against sensations that sought to claim him, he moved nervously and the note in his hand rattled with a dry and ominous whisper.
etymology
"conveying an omen, significant," 1580s, from Latin ominosus "full of foreboding," from omen (genitive ominis) "foreboding" (see omen (n.)). Especially (and now exclusively) "of ill omen, giving indication of coming evil." Related: Ominousness.
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