Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - ominous
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Ominous
ominous
adjective Date: 1580 being or exhibiting an omen ; portentous; especially foreboding or foreshadowing evil ; inauspicious • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun Synonyms: ~, portentous, fateful mean having a menacing or threatening aspect. ~ implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster ~ rumblings from the volcano. portentous suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity an eerie and portentous stillness. fateful suggests being of momentous or decisive importance the fateful conference that led to war.
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adj. 1 threatening; indicating disaster or difficulty. 2 of evil omen; inauspicious. 3 giving or being an omen. Derivatives ominously adv. ominousness n. Etymology: L ominosus (as OMEN) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. зловещий, угрожающий ominous gesture —- угрожающий жест ominous silence —- зловещее молчание; зловещая тишина those clouds look ominous for out picnic —- надвигающееся облака могут испортить наш пикник ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
If you describe something as ominous, you mean that it worries you because it makes you think that something unpleasant is going to happen. There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone... ADJ • ominously The bar seemed ominously quiet... Ominously, car sales slumped in August... ADV: ADV adj, ADV with cl, ADV with v ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ adj making you feel that something bad is going to happen (The car is making an ominous rattling sound.) - ominously adv (The sky looked ominously dark.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1589, from L. ominosus "full of foreboding," from omen (gen. ominis) "foreboding" (see omen). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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