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1. (adj.) ominous
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious.
2. ominous
having the significance of an omen.
Etymology: (1580–90; < L ōminōsus portentous, der. of ōmin-omen)
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1. (adj) baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
"a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
2. (adj) ill, inauspicious, ominous
presaging ill fortune
"ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
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Sense: giving a suggestion about something bad that is going to happen
an ominous cloud; an ominous silence.
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 Afrikaans: dreigend, onheilspellend |
 Arabic: نَذير بالشًّؤْم أو النَّح |
 Bulgarian: зловещ |
 Brazilian: agourento |
 Czech: zlověstný |
 German: unheilvoll |
 Danish: ildevarslende |
 Greek: δυσοίωνος, απειλητικός |
 Spanish: de mal agüero, siniestro |
 Estonian: pahaendeline |
 Farsi: بد یمن |
 Finnish: uhkaava |
 French: de mauvais augure |
 Hebrew: מְבָשֵׂר רָעוֹת |
 Hindi: अपशगुन |
 Croatian: zlokoban |
 Hungarian: baljós(latú) |
 Indonesian: beralamat buruk |
 Icelandic: óheillavænlegur |
 Italian: di malaugurio |
 Japanese: 不吉な |
 Korean: 불길한 |
 Lithuanian: grėsmingas |
 Latvian: draudīgs |
 Malay: menandakan |
 Dutch: onheilspellend |
 Norwegian: illevarslende, uhellsvang |
 Polish: złowieszczy |
 Persian: بد یمن |
 Pashto: بد طالع |
 Portuguese: agourento |
 Romanian: de rău augur |
 Russian: зловещий, угрожающий |
 Slovak: zlovestný |
 Slovenian: zlovešč |
 Serbian: zloslutan |
 Swedish: olycksbådande |
 Thai: ที่เป็นลางร้าย |
 Turkish: uğursuz |
 Taiwanese: 不祥的 |
 Ukrainian: зловісний; загрозливий |
 Urdu: بد فال، بد شگون |
 Vietnamese: điềm gở |
 Chinese: 不祥的 |
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