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Definition of Ominous
1. Adjective. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. "The situation became ugly"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Balefulness, Omen
2. Adjective. Presaging ill fortune. "A by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
Definition of Ominous
1. a. 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.
Definition of Ominous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant. ¹
2. Adjective. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen; threatening; portentous; inauspicious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ominous
1. portending evil [adj]
Medical Definition of Ominous
1. 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. "He had a good ominous name to have made a peace." (Bacon) "In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous." (South) Om"inously, Om"inousness. Origin: L. Ominosus, fr. Omen. See Omen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ominous
Literary usage of Ominous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"ominous Burning of Abbeys, often by Lightning. Bells no effectual Charm against
Lightning. We will conclude with their observation, as an ominous presage of ..."
2. Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Cæsar to by William Wolfe Capes (1876)
"AMONG all these evidences of material well-being there were ominous signs to
catch the ... The The ominous ,,, , ,.„ . queen of cities had clothed herself ..."
3. Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature by James Dennistoun (1851)
"ominous EVENTS. the exigencies of the government; and at supper ordered the
reading of Italian and Spanish books of edification to be continued as usual. ..."
4. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"A poet of rather ominous name, etc.—Thomas Fiat- man (c. 1635-1688), a poet and
artist of some repute ..."
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