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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
- Example: "a baleful look"
- Example: "forbidding thunderclouds"
- Example: "his tone became menacing"
- Example: "ominous rumblings of discontent"
- Example: "sinister storm clouds"
- Example: "a sinister smile"
- Example: "his threatening behavior"
- Example: "ugly black clouds"
- Example: "the situation became ugly"
[syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]

2. presaging ill fortune;
- Example: "ill omens"
- Example: "ill predictions"
- Example: "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley
- Example: "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
- Example: "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
[syn: ill, inauspicious, ominous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ominous \Om"i*nous\, a. [L. ominosus, fr. omen. See Omen.]
   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; as, an ominous
   dread.
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         He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.
                                                  --Bacon.
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         In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a
         heart was accounted ominous.             --South.
   [1913 Webster] -- Om"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Om"i*nous*ness,
   n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ominous
    adj 1: 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" [syn: baleful, forbidding,
           menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous,
           sinister, threatening]
    2: 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"
       [syn: ill, inauspicious, ominous]