OMINOUS
\ˈɒmɪnəs], \ˈɒmɪnəs], \ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of OMINOUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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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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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Foreboding or foreshowing evil.
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Ominously.
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Ominousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ominously.
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Ominousness.
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Pertaining to or containing an omen: foreboding evil: inauspicious.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Containing an omen; foreboding evil.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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