ominous in English dictionary

  • ominous

    Meanings and definitions of "ominous"

    • Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
    • Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.
    • adjective
      Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
    • adjective
      Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.
    • of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen
    • giving indication of a coming ill
    • adjective
      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
      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 of "ominous" in English dictionary

    forbidding, inauspicious, threatening are the top synonyms of "ominous" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of ominous

    • ominous ( comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)
    • ominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)
  • Ominous

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