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English Dictionary: ominous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ominous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ominous adj 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" Synonym(s): baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening 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" Synonym(s): ill, inauspicious, ominous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ominous \Om"inous\, 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"inously}, adv. -- {Om"inousness}, n.