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ominous
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- The idea of a white Christmas usually excited me, but now it felt ominous.
p. 49.9 *ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- That sounded ominous, and I stopped wiping the pot I was drying.†
p. 81.1
- Black smoke was billowing upwards into the swirling white snow, an ominous cloud lit by the inferno that fed it.†
p. 165.8
- His hand was three times bigger than it should have been, and there were dark streaks beneath his translucent skin that tracked ominously up his arm.†
p. 325.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)