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ominous

/'ɑmənəs/

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adjective
presaging ill fortune
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"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"

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ill inauspicious unpropitious
adjective
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
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"ominous rumblings of discontent"

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baleful forbidding menacing minacious minatory sinister threatening alarming

Examples of ominous

"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"
"ominous rumblings of discontent"