Ominous - English meaning

adjective

Threatening harm; menacing.

Usage examples:

Bill shot a baleful glance in her direction

adjective

Threatening to do something bad or to hurt someone

Usage examples:

He gave me a baleful look., his baleful influence

adjective

Of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.

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Black smoke

verb

Belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of african or australian aboriginal ancestry.

Usage examples:

Black adolescents of jamaican descent

noun

Another term for hamburger.

adjective

With little or no light.

Usage examples:

It's too dark to see much

noun

The absence of light in a place.

Usage examples:

Carolyn was sitting in the dark

adjective

Extremely serious or urgent.

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Misuse of drugs can have dire consequences

adjective

Very serious or extreme

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Cheating will bring dire consequences.

adjective

Extremely bad; dreadful.

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Indeed, he is reaching down to that best-known of lieder schubert published as his opus 1, and rean…

adjective

Very bad or unpleasant

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The direful conflict would soon culminate in civil war., she was overcome by a direful terror that …

adjective

Creating a mood that is sad and without hope, as if something very bad is going to happen

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The film features brooding, doomy music.

adjective

Unfriendly or threatening in appearance.

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A grim and forbidding building

verb

Refuse to allow (something).

Usage examples:

I can see why phones were forbidden

adjective

Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.

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A gloomy corridor badly lit by oil lamps

adjective

Not conducive to success; unpromising.

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Following this inauspicious start the british, outnumbered, withdrew

adjective

Suggesting that success is not likely

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After an inauspicious start, our team went on to win the game 30 to 24.

adjective

Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening.

Usage examples:

Our officers encountered menacing looks from teenagers

verb

Be a threat or possible danger to.

Usage examples:

Africa's elephants are still menaced by poaching

adjective

Making you think that someone is going to do something bad

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A menacing look/gesture

adjective

Menacing; threatening.

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D' annunzio's in rome, boisterous, warmongering, minacious, getting everyone riled up like a squawk…

adjective

Expressing or conveying a threat.

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He is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging

adjective

Expressing a warning or a threat

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This minatory approach hasn't scared children off hard drugs.

adjective

Of or like a portent; of momentous significance.

Usage examples:

This portentous year in canadian history

adjective

Too serious and trying to be very important

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The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing., the report…

adjective

Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.

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There was something sinister about that murmuring voice

adjective

Evil, or suggesting that something evil is going to happen

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She has dark, sinister eyes that make you nervous when she looks at you.

adjective

Giving the impression that something bad will happen; ominous.

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A sinistrous event

adjective

Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

Usage examples:

Her mother had received a threatening letter

verb

State one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done.

Usage examples:

How dare you threaten me?

adjective

Expressing the possibility that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen

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Threatening skies meant a storm was coming., she received several threatening phone calls after her…

adjective

Unpleasant or repulsive, especially in appearance.

Usage examples:

People in school always told me i was ugly

adjective

Expressing or showing a lack of approval or support.

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Single mothers are often the target of unfavourable press attention

adjective

Not good, and likely to cause problems or prevent success

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Other countries may lure private equity executives offshore if the tax regime in britain became unf…

adjective

Not giving you an advantage or a good chance of success

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Current conditions are very unfavourable for new businesses., we have to be prepared for an unfavou…

adjective

Not giving hope of future success or good results.

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The boy's natural intellect had survived in unpromising circumstances

adjective

(of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable.

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His reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time

adjective

Not likely to be successful, or not showing any signs of success

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It may have seemed an unpropitious time for a general election., she assumed power in distinctly un…

adjective

Characteristic of winter, especially in feeling or looking very cold and bleak.

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A wintry landscape

adjective

Typical of winter’s cold, windy, and snowy weather

Usage examples:

You’ll definitely need snow tires on your car for the wintry weather around here.