ominous meaning

• Adjective: ominous  ómunus
  1. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
     "ominous rumblings of discontent"
     - baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening 
  2. Presaging ill fortune
     "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
     - ill, inauspicious

  See also: alarming, omen, ominously, unpropitious

  Encyclopedia: Ominous

• He had a fall, which was ominous of his downfall.
• Mrs. brangwen was silent, she seemed ominous.
• No man moved, awaiting the next ominous question.
• His voice, for all its lightness, had an ominous ring.
• Their departure looked ominous because lightening hit the tree.
• ominous items of news of varied credibility now began to come in.
• The development of severe hypertension in glomerular disease is an ominous sign.
• Dr. whipple and captain janders were already listening to the ominous sound.
• Even so there remained an ominous gap to the westward which for the time being could not be bridged.
• Such reports come from the world's edges, with their evocation of the unknown, the marvellous and the ominous.

• "ominous" meaning in Chinese: adj. 1.预兆的，预示的(of)。2.不吉的，不祥的，兆头坏的。 短语和例子 an ominous sile...
• "ominous" meaning in Japanese: ominous adj. 不吉な, 険悪な; 前兆の, 予示する. 【副詞】 ◆It is extremely om...
• "ominous" meaning in Russian: 1) зловещий, угрожающий; Ex: ominous gesture угрожающий же...
• "ominous" meaning in French: adj. sinistre; menaçant; incarnant une mauvaise marque