All 3 Uses of
ominous
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.†
Chpt 10
- Or was there, as it rather seemed, a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity whichever way he turned himself?†
Chpt 15 *
- There was no feebleness of step as at other times; his frame was not bent, nor did his hand rest ominously upon his heart.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)