Thesaurus: ominous

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1. a. 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.
2. adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
3. adj. presaging ill fortune
4. 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"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om"i*nous*ness, n.
5. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting anomen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorableand unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding orforeshowing 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 wasaccounted ominous. South.-- Om"i*nous*ly, adv.-- Om"i*nous*ness, n.
6. j:100 s threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments s presaging ill fortune