Ominous - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈɑːmɪnəs|
Brit.
|ˈɒmɪnəs|
adjective
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments (syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening)
ominous rumblings of discontent
- presaging ill fortune (syn: ill, inauspicious)a dead and ominous silence prevailed
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'How long will she be ill?' he asked. There was an ominous silence.
The car is making an ominous rattling sound.
The sky looked ominously dark.
He spoke in ominous tones.
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