ominous

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
    presaging ill-fortune

Word Origin

ominous (adj.)
1580s, from Latin ominosus "full of foreboding," from omen (genitive ominis) "foreboding" (see omen). Related: Ominousness.

Synonym

Example

1. But these ominous predictions are based on computer models .
2. An ominous counter-example is iraq .
3. That is an even more ominous possibility .
4. There are already some ominous signs .
5. Some comments by chinese officials carried an ominous tone .

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