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What is another way to say that something is ominous?
The words fateful and portentous are common synonyms of ominous. While all three words mean “having a menacing or threatening aspect,” ominous implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster.
What is the nearly opposite meaning of ominous?
ominous. Antonyms: auspicious, propitious, encouraging. Synonyms: portentous, suggestive, threatening, foreboding, premonitory, unpropitious.
What is the synonyms and antonyms of ominous?
ominous. adjective. [‘ˈɑːmənəs’] threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. Synonyms. minacious. menacing. threatening. alarming. forbidding. sinister. baleful. Antonyms.
Is Ominous a negative word?
Yet “ominous,” first recorded in 1589, has always been unequivocally negative. There’s nothing good in the OED’s earliest definition: “Of ill omen, inauspicious; indicative or suggestive of future misfortune.”
What type of adjective is ominous?
Ominous, portentous, threatening, menacing, fateful are adjectives describing that which forebodes a serious, significant, and often harmful outcome. Ominous, derived from omen “a predictor of outcomes,” usually suggests evil or damaging eventualities: ominous storm clouds; an ominous silence.
What is the noun of ominous?
omen. Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
Is Ominous a adjective?
What is the synonyms of humiliation?
OTHER WORDS FOR humiliate dishonor, disgrace, shame; degrade, abase, debase.
What do you mean by threatening?
: to say that you will harm someone or do something unpleasant or unwanted especially in order to make someone do what you want. : to be something that is likely to cause harm to (someone or something) : to be a threat to (someone or something)
What is ominous as a noun?
Is Sinister an adjective?
Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky. Evil, seeming to be evil. Of the left side.
What is the dictionary definition of embarrassment?
to cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; disconcert; abash: His bad table manners embarrassed her. to put obstacles or difficulties in the way of; impede: The motion was advanced in order to embarrass the progress of the bill.