suggesting that sth bad is going to happen in the future:
There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead. * She picked up the phone but there was an ominous silence at the other end.
ominously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ominous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ominous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ominous is tagged as adjective.
Does ominous appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ominous appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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