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Ominous

adjective

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening. "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"

Presaging ill fortune. Synonyms: ill, inauspicious. "Ill predictions" , "My words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven" , "A dead and ominous silence prevailed" , "A by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

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... word, O Women, Friend, makes that sharp terror start Out at thy lips? What ominous cry half-heard Hath leapt upon ...

— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides

... political parties. No one can pretend, for instance, that there is any body of theoretic opinion so compact and so well thought out as Benthamism was in its own day and generation. Again, in practice, there are ominous signs that Parliament is likely to break up into groups; and the substitution of groups for parties is certain, if continental experience is to count for anything, to create new obstacles in the way of firm and ...

— Studies in Literature • John Morley

... weeded till they seemed unstinted praise. Thus: "It was not the fault of the management that the new play was so far from being a triumphant success," was cut down to one modest sentence, "A triumphant success." "A few enthusiastic cheers from personal friends alone broke the ominous silence when the curtain ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

... the move! They were spreading from their central citadels in ominous, expanding circles—circles that engulfed villages, towns and cities in a swift, relentless ring of annihilation that ...

— Spawn of the Comet • Harold Thompson Rich

... doctor had spoken began to appear with ominous regularity in fatal succession. At first he noticed only a constant high fever that seemed to grow worse with severe chills at the end of the afternoon. Then he observed sweats that were terrifying in their frequency—sweats at night that left the print of ...

— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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