Definitionadj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Last update: January 8, 2016
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Those black clouds are a bit ominous. [adjective]
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Consequently we busily create ominous circumstances which could make the 21st century even more dire than the 20th century. [adjective]
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These ominous symptoms almost always mean a failed big end or main crankshaft bearing. [adjective]
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Lovel, roused from his reverie, looked at him as if to inquire the meaning of an exclamation so ominous. [adjective]
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"It sounded strangely distinct," she said, "and almost ominous; but my feelings are so harassed that the slightest trifle agitates them." [adjective]
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Gorgo, turned pale; but it was not the physician's ominous speech that alarmed her, but the quaking of the walls of the room. [adjective]
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The glorious image of Serapis still stands radiant, but the cross casts an ominous shadow that has already darkened the light over half the earth. [adjective]
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She shrunk as she heard the noise which accompanied this ominous operation, yet remembered Ratcliffe's caution, and endeavoured to suppress all appearance of apprehension. [adjective]
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Ominous revengeful zodiacal host. [adjective]
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Protesilaus of Phylace, however, nobly disregarding the ominous prediction, leaped on shore, and fell by the hand of Hector. [adjective]
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Their chief duty was to watch and feed the ever-burning flame on the altar of Vesta, the extinction of which was regarded as a national calamity of ominous import. [adjective]
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