ominous
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin ominosus (“‘full of foreboding’”) < omen (“‘foreboding, omen’”) < os (“‘the mouth’”) + -men
[edit] Adjective
ominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)
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- Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.
- Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious.
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- Formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshadowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
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of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen
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giving indication of a coming ill
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[edit] External links
- ominous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ominous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
