Word Finder - ominous

definition

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

definition

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

example

California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011

synonyms

• inauspicious
• portentous
• threatening

There was an ominous silence.

Her ominous tone did not register with him.

His ominous farewell silenced her.

Gabriel's ominous warning suddenly made sense.

The door closed with an ominous boom that echoed throughout what sounded like a massive but empty chamber.

The decision is ominous for the future of democracy in the country.

Thunder tumbled down the San Juan Mountains, heralding the arrival of pelting rain that turned the Jeep road into a surging stream and the sky to an ominous shade of raven black.

Something ominous hangs in the winter air, a darkness and trepidation that well matches my mood.

Gabriel's ominous words made Kris uneasy.

Spain had received many ominous warnings.

This is beginning to look very ominous for Doherty.

The weather remained ominous with dark clouds rolling in, pushed by an ever-increasing wind that churned the sky in threatening waves.

The music seemed more ominous to me than the ominous scenes in the film.

She took one more look at the ominous man in black and the sword at his hip and followed, shaking from more than cold.

There were ominous rumblings from Zimbabwe.

He was tall and clothed in all black, ominous and large against the slate sky.

On the other hand, they were threatened by an ominous stirring of the subject races in Hungary itself.

This was the signal for an outburst of popular discontent with the existing order of a far more ominous character than any that had preceded it.

Nothing daunted by the ominous attacks of the French people and press, King Alphonso went to Paris.

Thus the Mahratta chouth came to have an ominous significance in Indian history.

Her gaze settled on the statue of Rhyn, whose large eyes held an ominous look too old for his chubby little face.

Closing date is a rather ominous Friday the 13th in April.

As July 12 drew closer the threat of even more serious violence became ominous.

A day later the forecast had turned ominous - heavy rains all weekend and flooding in the metro area.

This vas the first and ominous sign of a coming change.

An ominous dust cloud was crowding out three quarters of the sky in the north west.

Mr. Carr received him in his company design site web private office with ominous urbanity.

Not the least ominous symptom was the attitude of the officers, who, irritated by newspaper attacks on their conduct in Catalonia more especiaily, demanded that all crimes against the army should be tried by the councils of war.

While this sounds ominous, it's an amazing process.

I just hope the reduced number of routes this year is not a ominous portent for 1990.

Unlike turning 40, turning 50 seems a bit more ominous.

Gabriel.s ominous words made Kris uneasy.

Consequently we busily create ominous circumstances which could make the 21st century even more dire than the 20th century.

Monk is an equally ominous figure, seeming to absorb light like a black hole in space.

The reverses of the first part of the Boer campaign, together with the loss of so many of her officers and soldiers, caused no small part of that "great strain" of which the Court Circular spoke in the ominous words which first told the country that she was seriously ill.

The first time this happened, I thought it was someone sneaking up on me!Music soundtrack is subtle, but appropriately dark and ominous.

The kaleidoscopic display of orange, yellow, deep blue and gray was both beautiful and ominous.

She didn't like the ominous words and looked up at Dustin again, seeking to gauge just how serious the situation was.

Gabriel.s ominous warning suddenly made sense.

A slow 6/4 bass licks over ominous Pawn Hearts style shifting chords.

I mean, is it the scriptwriter's fault that Trevor can only do ominous malevolence or should they write him accordingly?

The taking of omens may be said to be a part of all systems of divination, in which the future is predicted by means of indications of one sort or another; and tradition has thus gathered round many subjects - events, actions, colours, numbers, &c. - which are considered "ominous," an adjective which generally connotes ill-fortune.

But the anti-clerical feeling and action of the Shepherds was new and ominous; and moved by its enormities the government suppressed the new movement ruthlessly.

In spite of the necessary allusions to the ominous theme of the curse, which would give any less great composer ample excuse for succumbing to the listener's sense of impending doom, Wagner's music speaks to us through the child-minds of the Rhine-daughters and terrifies us with the ruthless calm of Nature.

If other sister churches were reporting progress, or were simply keeping abreast of the population, these facts would not be so ominous as they undoubtedly are.

Balkan unrest had shown itself in unusually ominous form as early as the beginning of May 1912.

The extraordinary ambiguity and uncertainty which allegorical interpretation tacitly ascribed to Scripture, and the ease with which heretical as well as orthodox teaching could be represented as " hidden " under the literal sense, was early perceived, but instead of this leading to any real check on even wild subjectivity in interpretation and insistence on reaching the literal sense, it created an ominous principle that maintained much of its influence long after the supremacy of allegorism was overthrown.

Every fresh reform edict was greeted with demonstrations of enthusiasm, but the ominous cry Viva Pio Nono solo!

The shadow of the approaching depression had already fallen upon the land before the year 1875 had run its course, and the outlook became ominous as the decade of the 'seventies neared its close.

Thus, in itself, the position of affairs in the Holy Land in 1147 was certainly ominous; and the kingdom might well seem dependent for its safety on such aid as it might receive from the West.