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[ adjective ] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Examples "a baleful look" "forbidding thunderclouds" "his tone became menacing" "ominous rumblings of discontent" "sinister storm clouds" "a sinister smile" "his threatening behavior" |
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[ adjective ] presaging ill-fortune
Synonyms Examples "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" |
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