All 6 Uses of
ominous
in
The Red Badge of Courage
- As he looked all about him and pondered upon the mystic gloom, he began to believe that at any moment the ominous distance might be aflare, and the rolling crashes of an engagement come to his ears.†
Chpt 2
- A house standing placidly in distant fields had to him an ominous look.
Chpt 3 *ominous = threatening or suggestive of bad things to come
- He thought that all the regiment was fleeing, pursued by those ominous crashes.†
Chpt 6
- But when they remained ominously silent he became frightened and imagined terrible fingers that clutched into his brain.†
Chpt 12
- The flaming opposition in their front grew with their advance until it seemed that all forward ways were barred by the thin leaping tongues, and off to the right an ominous demonstration could sometimes be dimly discerned.†
Chpt 19
- There was an ominous, clanging overture to the charge when the shafts of the bayonets rattled upon the rifle barrels.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)