Ominous definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OM'INOUS, a. [L. ominosus ... worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. 2. Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good. Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed. WordNet (r) 3 ... developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his ... the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening] 2: presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions ... inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by- election at a time highly ...
... omens. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in an ominous manner; "the sun darkened ominously" Merriam Webster's adverb see ominous Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ominous Om"i*nous, a. [L. ominosus, fr. omen. See Omen ... in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. --Bacon. In the heathen ... worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. --South. -- Om"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om"i*nous* ...
... s 1828 Dictionary OM'INOUSNESS, n. The quality of being ominous. Merriam Webster's noun see ominous Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ominous Om"i*nous, a. [L. ominosus, fr. omen. See Omen ... in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread. He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. --Bacon. In the heathen ... worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. --South. -- Om"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om"i*nous* ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PORTENT'OUS, a. [L. portentosus.] Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous ... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman ... discipline's overwrought, portentous phrases — R. M. Coles > Synonyms: see ominous • portentously adverb • portentousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 like ... nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. --Shak. Victories of ... portentous... ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Ominous (of ill), premonitory, ill-boding, inauspicious, unpropitious. 2. Monstrous, prodigious ... menacing, mind-boggling, miraculous, momentous, mythical, noteworthy, of evil portent, ominous, phenomenal, portending, precautional, precautionary, precursive, precursory, premonitory, prodigious, prodromal, ...
... developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his ... the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Menace Men"ace, v ... minacious, minatory, near, near at hand, nearing, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overhanging, parlous, periculous, perilous, portending, portentous, preparing ...
... developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his ... the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening] 2: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn ... minacious, minatory, near, near at hand, nearing, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overhanging, parlous, periculous, perilous, portending, portentous, preparing ...
... death, funeral, or disaster ; toll 2. to sound in an ominous manner or with an ominous effect II. noun Date: before 12th century 1. a stroke ... for a death or funeral. b make a doleful or ominous sound. 2 tr. proclaim by or as by a knell ...
... inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by- election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" [syn: ill, inauspicious, ominous] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1592 not auspicious < an inauspicious ... propos, malapropos, malevolent, menacing, mistimed, of evil portent, off base, ominous, out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out ...
... inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by- election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" [syn: ill, inauspicious, ominous] n 1: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a ... mortally ill, not quite right, of evil portent, off-color, ominous, out of sorts, outrage, peccant, poison, pollution, portending, portentous, rocky ...
... Dictionary adj. 1 a calamitous, dreadful (in dire straits). b ominous (dire warnings). 2 urgent (in dire need). Derivatives: direly adv ... nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, of evil portent, offensive, ominous, out of luck, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck, portending, portentous ...