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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Menacing; threatening: ominous black clouds; ominous rumblings of discontent.
  2. adj. Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Conveying some omen; serving as a sign or token; significant.
  2. Of good omen; auspicious.
  3. Of ill omen; giving indication of coming ill; portentous; inauspicious; unlucky.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
  2. adj. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. presaging ill fortune
  2. adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ominosus ("full of foreboding"), from omen ("forebiden fruit, omen"), from os ("the mouth") + -men (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin ōminōsus, from ōmen, ōmin-, omen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • rocana01pd2018 Clockwork Prince
    Page 102
    She had found her room chilly, dark, and more than slightly (ominous). Oct 24, 2012

  • eleininger "It was ominous at night. Dim light from the glass-domed ceiling cast crosshatched shadows across the walls like a giant spiderweb" (The Red Pyramid, p. 18) The Red Pyramid Oct 23, 2012

  • gcastro the exorcist is ominous Oct 1, 2010

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