All 7 Uses of
ominous
in
Catch-22
- With sick call suspended and the door to the medical tent nailed shut, Doc Daneeka spent the intervals between rain perched on a high stool, wordlessly absorbing the bleak outbreak of fear with a sorrowing neutrality, roosting like a melancholy buzzard below the ominous, hand-lettered sign tacked up on the closed door of the medical tent by Captain Black as a joke and left hanging there by Doc Daneeka because it was no joke.†
Chpt 10
- 'Gimme eat, I said,' he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.†
Chpt 11 *
- Major — de Coverley was an ominous, incomprehensible presence who kept him constantly on edge and of whom even Colonel Korn tended to be wary.†
Chpt 21
- An ominous vision of doom depressed him when he looked at Orr.†
Chpt 28
- Yossarian heard himself echo, quivering with a deep and ominous excitement that he could not control, and shoved his way after Dunbar toward the bed of the soldier in white.†
Chpt 34
- The measured, labored, evocative scrape of iron shovel against concrete made his flesh crawl with terror as he stepped from the curb to cross the ominous alley and hurried onward until the haunting, incongruous noise had been left behind.†
Chpt 39
- Yossarian's heart pounded with fright and horror at the pitiful, ominous, gory spectacle of the broken corpse.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
-
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)