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Meaning of ominous

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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