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What (who) is OMINOUSLY - definition
ominously
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ominous
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PHENOMENON THAT IS BELIEVED TO FORETELL THE FUTURE
Omens; Portent (divination); Omenous; Portents; Ominousness; Prodigy (divination); Ill omen; Bad omen; Ominous
If you describe something as ominous, you mean that it worries you because it makes you think that something unpleasant is going to happen.
There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone...
ADJ
• ominously
The bar seemed ominously quiet...
Ominously, car sales slumped in August...
ADV: ADV adj, ADV with cl, ADV with v
Ominous
PHENOMENON THAT IS BELIEVED TO FORETELL THE FUTURE
Omens; Portent (divination); Omenous; Portents; Ominousness; Prodigy (divination); Ill omen; Bad omen; Ominous
·adj Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous;
- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
Examples of use of OMINOUSLY
1. More ominously, the growth in oil production has slipped.
2. Ominously, each marked the highest point reached by previous floods.
3. "Don‘t go out there," a man in white warned ominously.
4. More ominously, Ahdyar‘s mother worries about the security situation in the country.
5. "I think I can definitely improve little things," he said ominously.