All 3 Uses
ominous
in
A Room With A View
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- For it was in ominous tones that she said, after a long pause: "Dearest Lucy, how will you ever forgive me?"†
Chpt 7 *ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- The question was ominous; up till now Mrs. Honeychurch had behaved with charity and restraint.†
Chpt 13
- Those were muddles—little, but ominous—and I am fearing that you are in one now.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)