All 4 Uses
ominous
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Grendel
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- It was slightly ominous because of its strangeness—no wolf was so vicious to other wolves—but I half believed they weren't serious.†
Chpt 3ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents.†
Chpt 7
- In the town, children go down on their backs in the drifted snow and move their arms and, when they rise, leave behind them impressions, mysterious and ominous, of winged creatures.†
Chpt 9
- He and his company went on, their weapons clinking, chain-mail jangling, solemn and ominous as drums.
Chpt 11 *ominous = threatening or suggestive of bad things to come
Definitions:
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(1)
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)