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Definitions of ominous in various dictionaries:
adj - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
adj - presaging ill fortune
Menacing; threatening: ominous black clouds; ominous rumblings of discontent.
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giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen threateningly inauspicious. |
Menacing threatening: ominous black clouds ominous rumblings of discontent. |
Of or being an omen, especially an evil one. |
presaging ill-fortune |
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen: |
suggesting something unpleasant will happen: |
Ominous might refer to |
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An omen (also called portent or presage) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. People in ancient times believed that omens bring a divine message from their gods.These omens include natural phenomena, for example an eclipse, abnormal births of animals and humans and behavior of the sacrificial lamb on its way to the slaughter. They had specialists, the diviners, to interpret these omens. They would also use an artificial method, for example, a clay model of a sheep liver, to communicate with their gods in times of crisis. They would expect a binary answer, either yes or no answer, favorable or unfavorable. They did these to predict what would happen in the future and to take action to avoid disaster.Though the word "omen" is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either "good" or "bad," the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word "ominous". The origin of the word is unkno |